The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics | Angelos Chaniotis
Fowler Museum CourtyardThe Department of Classics is pleased to present The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics. The lecture will be given by Angelos Chaniotis on “The Polis as a Stage: Theatricality and Illusion...
Recitatio | Classics Department
Dodd 275Please join us for our annual Recitatio on Thursday, May 30th at 5:00PM. All are welcome to listen/participate in reciting texts in Latin or Greek – feel free to prepare...
Department of Classics & The Program in Indo-European Studies Welcome Reception
Shapiro Courtyard 385 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA“Respublica Rediviva: Plato and the Guaraní of Paraguay.” | Michael Brumbaugh
Looking for Utopia around every corner of the “New World,” 17th and 18th century Europeans saw in the Jesuit-Guaraní Republic of Paraguay an ancient Greek polity nestled deep within the...
Metamorphosis and the Environmental Imagination from Ovid to Shakespeare
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CANarratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us....
Greek Book Club
Those with interests in Modern Greek will want to check out the Greek Book Club this Fall, which is run by Dr. Simos Zenios at St Sophia Cathedral in LA....
“The Power of Names in Republican Rome” | Jane Chaplin
For readers of Livy and students of Roman republican history, the idea that names revealed character and foretold behavior is familiar: a Manlius Torquatus can be expected to treat his...
Film Screening | “A Touch of Spice”
James Bridges Theater 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CAWe are proud to offer a screening of A Touch of Spice by our distinguished professor and UCLA alumnus Tassos Boulmetis! Free and open to the public.
