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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...

McClanahan Graduate Essay Prize Lecture Virgin Sacrifice? Menoikeus in Euripides' Phoenician Women presented by Jake Sawyer, University of Colorado Boulder Monday, December 2nd I 5 pm I HUMN 1B90 Free and open to the public Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building

Through pieces of pottery, archaeologist touches history in the Mediterranean

Friday, 13th September, the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ appointed Professor Carole Newlands a University Distinguished Professor . The title "Distinguished Professor" is the highest honor that the University of Colorado bestows on its own faculty members. This title is extended to a very limited number of honorees chosen...

Congratulations to Yvona Trnka-Amrhein on the receipt of two external research fellowships, one from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC and one from the Loeb Foundation . These fellowships will allow her devote the next academic year to developing and finalizing her monograph, Portraits of a Pharaoh: The...

This award recognizes outstanding college and university teachers of Classics.

We are delighted to announce that Sarah James has won a CHA Faculty Fellowship for 2019-20. She will be working on the manuscript for her second book, entitled The Archaeology of Hellenistic Economies: Corinth and Mediterranean Trade in the 4th-1st centuries BCE . This book marks a new direction in...

Mary E. V. McClanahan Graduate Essay Prize Monday, December 3rd at 5:30 pm | HUMN 250 Virgil’s Chaonian Doves Reading Hesiod in Eclogues 5 and 9 Classics PhD candidate, Samuel Hahn On one level, Virgil’s Eclogues consider the tension between Latin poetry and the Roman state. With the image of...

Professor Elspeth Dusinberre - Archaeology, Imperialism, and What It Means To Be Human. Understanding how the Achaemenid Empire worked, the processes and effects of imperialism, can—if we wish—allow us a different glimpse into our own lives as well.