The second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato has just been published, featuring articles by two department faculty members. David Blank contributed the entry on “Writing” in the dialogues, and Kathryn…
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The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco by Sarah E. Beckmann
Published: December 16, 2022Sarah Beckmann’s article on “The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco” has just been published in the American Journal of Archaeology (vol 127.1) This article…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Bryant Kirkland Serves as Guest Panelist at Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric
Published: December 12, 2022Assistant Professor Bryant Kirkland recently served as a panelist at the Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric’s virtual roundtable discussion of two recently published books, Laura Viidebaum’s Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition (CUP, 2021) and Christopher…
Read MorePhD student Caterina Fossi joins Department as Visiting Scholar
Published: November 21, 2022Welcome to Caterina Fossi, a doctoral student from the University of Amsterdam who is joining the department as a Visiting Graduate Researcher in the last part of the fall quarter….
Read MoreProfessor Sander Goldberg publishes new commentary on Terence’s Andria
Published: November 21, 2022We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a new commentary on Terence’s Andria, edited with Introduction and Notes by Sander M. Goldberg, in the Cambridge Greek and Latin…
Read MoreProfessor Giulia Sissa publishes A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity
Published: November 21, 2022Congratulations to Giulia Sissa on the publication of A Cultural History of Ideas, co-edited with Clifford Ando, as part of the Bloomsbury A Cultural History of Ideas series https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-history-of-ideas-9781350007550/ Professor Sissa…
Read MoreProfessor Amy Richlin delivers the 2022 Jerome Lectures in Michigan and Rome
Published: November 21, 2022Professor Amy Richlin gave seven lectures this Fall on the topic of “Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica” for the Thomas Spencer Jerome lecture series. The lectures were delivered…
Read MoreProfessor Alex Purves delivers the Cambridge 2022 Corbett Lecture
Published: November 18, 2022This Fall Professor Alex Purves delivered the annual Corbett Lecture at Cambridge University, entitled “Once and Ever: Waiting for the Future in Homer’s Iliad.” A recording of the lecture will…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Bryant Kirkland’s book reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement
Published: November 16, 2022Assistant Professor Bryant Kirkland was delighted to have his new book Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: criticism, imitation, reception (Oxford, 2022) reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, a venerable general-interest publication with…
Read MoreCongratulations to Prof Kirkland!
Published: July 15, 2022Congratulations to Assistant Professor Bryant Kirkland on the publication of his first book, *Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception*, out today from Oxford University Press! https://tinyurl.com/3r5jktcs
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