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Assistant Professor Adriana Vazquez Awarded NEH Grant
Assistant Professor Adriana Vazquez, together with a team of collaborators led by Leni Ribeiro Leite (University of Kentucky), has been awarded a Scholarly Editions and Translations grant...
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Professor Amy Richlin awarded a 2026 Wilbur Cross Medal.
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Yale University has awarded Distinguished Research Professor Amy Richlin a 2026 Wilbur Cross Medal. The award was announced on...
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Alex Purves delivers the Lansdowne Lectures.
Professor (and Chair) Alex Purves is honored to be delivering the Lansdowne Lectures at the University of Victoria next week. She will give three lectures on Homer:...
Blogs - Odysseus in Antiquity and Today
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The Odyssey Files #5: “Trick or Trauma? Odysseus and His Many Epithets”
By Caleb Speakman, Graduate Student in Classics The Odyssey is a text that speaks with many voices, reflecting both the rich oral tradition that stands behind...
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The Odyssey Files #4: “Nolan’s Circe: Circe the Witch, Circe the Hag”
By JuliAnne Rach, Graduate Student in Classics Perhaps one of the most suggestive parts of Nolan’s Odyssey for me, is his depiction of the witch Circe....
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The Odyssey Files #3: “Why Odysseus Can Never Go Home”
By Professor Ella Haselswerdt It’s easy to take for granted that we know what the Odyssey is about, at least on the most straightforward, narrative level:...