Check the Features section for late University President Butler's 1936 address on the importance of classical studies and the contributions of Nelson Glenn McRea (pictured at left), Charles Anthon Professor of Latin Language and Literature.
Gareth Williams, the Violin Family Professor of Classics, has been appointed Acting Chair of the Department of Classics for the Fall 2008 Semester. Professor James Zetzel has been appointed Chair of the Department of Classics for the next three years beginning in January 2009.
Upcoming conference: "Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius? Astronomica", Columbia University, New York, 24-25 October 2008, co-organized by Katharina Volk (Columbia) and Steven Green (Leeds). Speakers include: Josephe-Henriette Abry, Elaine Fantham, Monica Gale, Patrick Glauthier, Steven Green, Thomas Habinek, Stephan Heilen, John Henderson, Wolfgang Huebner, Duncan Kennedy, Daryn Lehoux, Wolfgang Mann, Caroline Stark, James Uden, and Katharina Volk. For more information, click here or e-mail Katharina Volk.
The dates for this year's Greek play, Sophocles' Antigone, are March 28th at 8PM and March 29th at 2PM and 8PM at the Minor Latham Playhouse.
The Jay Professor of Greek and Latin, Roger Bagnall, retired last spring. He is a renowned papyrologist and historian, and he has served the University (as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) and the department (as Chair) while teaching, publishing books, curating the University's collection of papyri, and leading a dig at Amheida in Egypt. He is now Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, and remains an adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia.
Check the Features section for late University President Butler's 1936 address on the importance of classical studies and the contributions of Nelson Glenn McRea (pictured at left), Charles Anthon Professor of Latin Language and Literature.
David Pritchard of the University of Sydney gave the first of this year's classics colloquia on September 12, delivering his talk "War Minus the Shooting: Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens" to the department.
Pritchard (far right) is joined (from left) by doctoral students James
Tan and James Uden and Associate Professor Nancy Worman.