Congratulations to Caroline Lunt on her honors thesis, “A Cult of Their Own: Space and Identity in Literary Description of Nymph Worship,” which was selected for presentation at UCLA’s Undergraduate…
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Graduate Student Awards
Published: May 31, 2023Congratulations to the following graduate students! Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Awards (2023) Mary Anastasi, “Food for Thought: The Parasite as Intellectual in Imperial Greek Literature” (mentor: David Blank) Nicolette D’Angelo,…
Read MoreProfessor David Blank presents paper at “Plato in Roman Philosophy” Conference in Toronto
Published: May 31, 2023Professor David Blank will be presenting a paper at the “Plato & Roman Philosophy” conference at the University of Toronto on Saturday June 3rd. His paper is “Philodemus on Plato…
Read MoreUCLA Classics PhD Celsiana Warwick’s article in Classical Quarterly 72.1
Published: May 23, 2023Congratulations to UCLA Classics PhD Celsiana Warwick (2018) whose article “Chthonic Disruption in Lycophron’s Alexandra” has just appeared in Classical Quarterly 72.1! For more info, click here
Read MoreProfessor John Papadopoulos delivers lecture on colonies and cities
Published: May 23, 2023On Monday May 22nd John Papadopoulos presented a lecture on zoom to the International Association for Archaeological Research in Western and Central Asia on the topic of “Komai, colonies, and…
Read MoreAlumna Suzanne Lye awarded a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Fellowship
Published: May 23, 2023Alumna Suzanne Lye has just been awarded a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Fellowship. Suzanne received her PhD in Classics from UCLA in 2016 and is currently an Assistant Professor at…
Read MoreProfessor Sander Goldberg awarded 2023 UCLA Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award
Published: May 19, 2023We are delighted to announce that Professor Sander Goldberg is one of three recipients of the 2023 UCLA Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award! Congratulations Professor Goldberg! For more information,…
Read MoreProfessor Ella Haselswerdt article published in Classical Antiquity
Published: May 19, 2023Congratulations to Professor Ella Haselswerdt, whose article “Mythic Landscapes and Ecologies of Suffering in Sophocles’ Philoctetes” was recently published in Classical Antiquity (vol. 42.1, April 2023). For more information, click…
Read MoreProfessor Hannah Čulík-Baird to give a talk entitled “Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction.”
Published: May 12, 2023Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi will be giving a talk this coming Wednesday over Zoom at the University of Birmingham, UK, entitled “Euhemerus, Lactantius, and the case against fragment reconstruction.” Wed…
Read MoreProfessor Ella Haselswerdt will deliver a talk entitled “Choral Epistemology: Lyric Thinking in Greek Tragedy”
Published: May 11, 2023Professor Ella Haselswerdt will deliver a talk entitled “Choral Epistemology: Lyric Thinking in Greek Tragedy” at the conference “Lyric Across the Disciplines” hosted by Yale University on Saturday, May 13th….
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