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Assistant 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…

Welcome 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….

We 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…

Congratulations 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…

Professor 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…

This 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…

Assistant 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…

Congratulations 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

Prof Richlin has co-authored an SCS blog post with University of Michigan Classics colleague Prof Bruce Frier entitled “‘Deeply rooted in history’: Teaching abortion ancient and modern in a post-Roe…