Since 2018, Robert Gurval, associate professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Classics, has taught a course and led walking tours on UCLA’s early history and architecture. As we celebrate the…
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The UCLA Dept. of Classics heartily congratulates Dr. Bryant Kirkland, Associate Professor of Classics, on the news that his book Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is one of this year’s three…
Read MoreThe Program in Indo-European Studies and the Department of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, have been authorized to make an appointment to a full-time position in Classical…
Read MoreProfessor Hannah Čulík-Baird’s new review of Sarah F. Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022), has been published today. Sarah Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022) is a sharp and sensitive…
Read MoreThe UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to announce the Summer 2023 Edition of the Newsletter. In it you’ll get the latest news on faculty and graduate student research, publications,…
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Francesca Martelli and Professor Giulia Sissa on the publication of their new book entitled Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination. This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text…
Read MoreThis is a longer version of Prof Sarah Beckmann’s entry in the Summer 2023 Classics Department Newsletter. Greetings from Rome! It is late July, and the heat wave in southern…
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Professor John Papadopoulos and Professor Sarah Morris have edited a volume of 2 books on Ancient Methone entitled: Ancient Methone, 2003-2013: Excavations by Matthaios Besseios, Athena Athanassiadou, and Konstantinou Noulas…
Read MoreIn this interview Professor Purves discusses some of the ways she has benefited as a participant in UCLA’s Excellence in Pedagogy in the Classroom’s initiatives. Click here for more.
Read MoreOn 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…
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