2020

The Department of Classics congratulates Lauri Reitzammer! Lauri Reitzammer has won a LEAP (Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion) Growth Grant , that will give her a teaching release next academic year to work on her current book project: Resident Aliens and Sacred Sightseers: Female Immigrants and Travelers in Athenian Tragedy .

The Department of Classics congratulates Sarah James! Sarah James has been awarded a CU Research and Innovation Seed Grant , a major grant that will support two seasons (in 2021 and 2022) of the Classics Department’s new archaeological project! The project is a collaboration with the University of Split that...

Fulvia and the Perusine War Celia Schultz, University of Michigan Thursday, March 5th I 5:00p.m. I HUMN 135 Who was Fulvia? Was she the driving force during the siege of Perugia in 43 BCE, leading men into battle? This lecture will explore the contradictory literary and material sources surrounding Fulvia,...

The Department of Classics congratulates Tyler Lansford on his promotion to Senior Instructor! Tyler Lansford (Ph.D. Washington 1991) is primarily interested in the historical topography of the city of Rome from antiquity to the present. His first book, The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide (Johns Hopkins 2009) features...

All Classics undergraduates should limber up for the Matthew Dwyer Translation competition . This will take place on Monday, 2nd March , in HUMN 345 , at 2-4:30 pm and Tuesdaty, 3rd March , in HUMN 350 , at 1:30-4 pm . One prize each for Greek and Latin will...

Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic World

Excellent research fuels exceptional teaching, and vice versa

Imperial Integration on Rome's Atlantic Rim Carlos Noreña, University of California, Berkeley Monday, February 17th I 5:00p.m. I HUMN 250 This paper investigates the Atlantic rim of the Roman world. This macroregion, a sort of ecological "frontier," has been almost wholly ignored in studies of the Roman empire as a...

OFFERING BEGINNING CLASSICAL GREEK Beginning Classical Greek provides an opportunity for highly motivated students to immerse themselves in the study of ancient Greek so that they may progress rapidly through Greek grammar and then into reading Greek texts at the intermediate level. This two-course series will be intense and fast-paced,...