Classics & Classical Studies

Information session for students interested in taking Greek 0101 during winter term 2020.

Classics lecture by Ewen Bowie, Oxford University

Sappho was the only woman poet to attain canonical status in the ancient Greek world. The talk will explore how, at the same time as papyri document many readers of her poems in Greco-Roman Egypt in the first 3 centuries AD, Greek writers of different sorts - critics, philosophers, sophists and novelists - displayed their appreciation and knowledge of her poetry and sometimes reworked it to create their new, Sappho-scented prose and poetry.

David Levene, Professor of Classics, New York University

Virginia Closs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The poetry-and-performance obsessed Nero of legend can credibly be imagined as reaching for his lyre (or cithara) to align his burning city more closely with Troy, her mythic predecessor. Yet by the same token Romans, accustomed to drawing these same parallels, can easily be believed to have used them to construct both the accusation of Nero’s alleged arson, and the rumor of this performance during the fire.

The Classics Department announces the Kellogg competition in Latin translation. The Kellogg Prize fund was established in May 1918 by Prof. Brainerd Kellogg, Class of 1858 ‘to encourage Latin and English’. This award is given for the best sight translation of a passage from Latin poetry into English. Contestants may use a dictionary.
This contest is open to all Middlebury College students.

The Fall Family Weekend Marathon Reading this year will be Homer’s Odyssey.  We are reading the Emily Wilson translation. The reading, open to all, will continue through dusk each evening. Translation, laurel wreath and baklava provided; please contact the Classics Department to sign up for a reading time or visit go/epic.

The reading will be held on the plaza, and move to the vestibule in the event of rain.

The Fall Family Weekend Marathon Reading this year will be Homer’s Odyssey.  We are reading the Emily Wilson translation. The reading, open to all, will continue through dusk each evening. Translation, laurel wreath and baklava provided; please contact the Classics Department to sign up for a reading time or visit go/epic.

The reading will be held on the plaza, and move to the vestibule in the event of rain.

The Fall Family Weekend Marathon Reading this year will be Homer’s Odyssey.  We are reading the Emily Wilson translation. The reading, open to all, will continue through dusk each evening. Translation, laurel wreath and baklava provided; please contact the Classics Department to sign up for a reading time or visit go/epic.

The reading will be held on the plaza, and move to the vestibule in the event of rain.

For the past five years, the Department of Classical Studies at Dickinson College has spearheaded a collaboration of western classical scholars and teachers.

The Eve Adler Department of Classics will sponsor a marathon reading of Vergil’s <i>Aeneid<i>. The Latin epic about the destruction of one civilization and the founding of another, Vergil’s <i>Aeneid<i> recounts the wanderings of the hero Aeneas from the ruins of Troy to the shores of Italy, and describes with moving detail the wars he must fight in order to establish a line of leaders that will eventually lead to the Roman Caesars. The reading, open to all, will continue through dusk each evening.