Symposium: International Greek Language Day | Sunday, February 9 Abstracts of talks Brent Vine (UCLA). Greek in the Bronze Age: Linear B and Mycenaean Greek. 2:10-2:50pm Almost unique among languages of the world, the Greek language provides continuous written documentation over a span of more than three millennia, and has retained its identity as “Greek”...
Due to university measures to restrict the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we must, regretfully, cancel all in-person spring events.
This talk (offered on Zoom) by Professor Kathryn Morgan, Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics, explores the origins and some of the development of the myth of the lost island of Atlantis, from Plato to contemporary video games. This legend has fascinated its audiences since it first appeared in the works of the philosopher...
Please join The UCLA SNF Center on Thursday, June 11th for a lecture on Classical Greek marriage rituals by Irini Papageorgiou. Irini is the Curator of the Department of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum. To receive a Zoom link for this lecture, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92259904483
Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94 OR Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/alexpurves Password: myth
Please contact Savannah Shapiro (sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu) for Zoom link.
Graduate Workshop The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in which graduate scholars can showcase their ongoing research and receive useful commentary from their peers in an informal setting. To see upcoming sessions this quarter,...
