The 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…
Read MoreWe 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 MoreCongratulations 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 @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” at the conference “Lyric Across the Disciplines” hosted by Yale University on Saturday, May 13th….
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