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The UCLA Department of Classics is one of three Humanities departments at UCLA ranked in the top ten nationally in the last National Research Council report. Classics forms the foundation for the Humanities. Philology, philosophy, government (including democracy), the theater, linguistics, archaeology, literary theory and many other fields have their origins in the Classics. The UCLA Department of Classics has a robust undergraduate and graduate program. Each year we teach an average of 2,000 undergraduate students various aspects of Greek and Roman culture, literature, philology, archaeology, and history. We have a dedicated and diverse faculty of scholars and teachers,...
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Nicolette D’Angelo publishes “What Would Hippokrates Do?”
PhD student Nicolette D'Angelo has recently published "What Would Hippokrates Do? Classical Reception in the Age of COVID-19" in The Rootcutter, a new science and medicine blog...
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Professor Greg Woolf joins UCLA Classics
We are delighted to announce that Professor Greg Woolf, the Ronald J Mellor Professor of Ancient History at UCLA, is joining the Classics Department on a 0%...
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Hannah Čulík-Baird publishes article on the reception of racial discourse in Cicero
Hannah Čulík-Baird has recently published "Erasing the Aethiopian in Cicero's Post Reditum in Senatu, in Ramus 51.2 (2023), 182-202. In this article, Professor Čulík-Baird argues that the word "aethiops" (removed...