Classics & Classical Studies

Remarks & awards for Classics & Classical Studies and Philosophy seniors and their families at 5:15 p.m. in the Robison Concert Hall, during the joint reception ongoing from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. in the upper lobby of the Mahaney Arts Center.

Robert Morstein-Marx, Professor of Classics, UC Santa Barbara
For centuries, Julius Caesar has usefully served modern democracies and republics as a focus for fears of authoritarian takeover from within. This simplistic view of Caesar as aspiring tyrant is mistaken. A more historically accurate assessment of Caesar’s role in the final crisis of the Roman Republic should instead caution us against rash partisan overreaction and its potential for a ‘death spiral’ of norm-breaking that risks destroying a republic in the name of saving it.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to read Homer and Plato in the original Greek? Come to the Classics Department’s informational meeting for our Intensive Classical Greek (GREK 0101) to find out. Instructors and former students will answer whatever questions you have and describe the lifelong profits that accrue to those who learn to read Ancient Greek. Please attend if you are interested!

Celia Schultz, Professor of Classical Studies & History at the University of Michigan will speak about Roman rituals. Why they were so bothered by human sacrifice that they eventually outlawed the practice.
Lunch will be provided.

This fascinating program spans at least 2,500 years of musical history. Based on authentic fragments of ancient Greek hymns that have survived, composer, musicologist, and lyre soloist Nikos Xanthoulis and mezzo soprano Sophia Karakouta illustrate the evolution of Greek music from antiquity to the present. Through storytelling and performance of hymns and traditional and modern songs to the accompaniment of a reconstructed ancient lyre, the audience is invited to experience the journey of Hellenic music through time. Join us for this unique musical experience!

We will be reading Vergil’s Aeneid, if you are interested in participating (we’re using an English translation, no prior knowledge of the text or Latin is necessary) please contact Trish Dougherty. If you’d like to just stop by and listen for a while everyone is welcome.

We will be reading Vergil’s Aeneid, if you are interested in participating (we’re using an English translation, no prior knowledge of the text or Latin is necessary) please contact Trish Dougherty. If you’d like to just stop by and listen for a while everyone is welcome.

We will be reading Vergil’s Aeneid, if you are interested in participating (we’re using an English translation, no prior knowledge of the text or Latin is necessary) please contact Trish Dougherty. If you’d like to just stop by and listen for a while everyone is welcome.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Dance, Theatre, Classics & Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Religion, and Education Studies.

James Ker, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania