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Classics News


The new 2011-2012 edition of Vox Classica, our departmental newsletter, is now available in PDF.


NEW 10/21/11: Greeks and Romans for Spring 2012 is now available in PDF format.


The department is now on Facebook! Check it out for event announcements, photos, and more.


New pages recently added to our website: Friends of Classics, a listing of events for the Friends of Classics, and Faculty Bookshelf, a selection of recent publications by our faculty.

Fall Term 2011


  • September 10 (Sat.), Fall meeting of the Classical Association of Virginia, South Meeting Room, Newcomb Hall.
  • September 23 (Fri.), Thomas Noble Howe (Southwestern University, Coordinator General, Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation), ‘The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae near Pompeii’, 5 PM, 160 Campbell Hall. (AIA Lecture)
  • September 27 (Tues.), John Rich (University of Nottingham), ‘Re-assembling the Past: The Fragments of the Roman Historians’, 5 PM, Gibson Room, Cocke Hall. (Page Barbour Lecture)
  • October 3 (Mon.), Ward Briggs (University of South Carolina), ‘Through the Fire: The Civil War and Classical Study’, 5:30 PM, Gibson Room, Cocke Hall. (Friends of Classics Lecture)
  • October 6 (Thurs.), Visit from the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D. C.
  • October 20 (Thurs.), Silvia Montiglio (Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University) ‘The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif’, 5 PM, Gibson Room, Cocke Hall. (James S. Constantine Lecture)
  • October 25 (Tues.), T. J. Cornell (University of Manchester), ‘Cato, the Origines, and the Roman Commonwealth in the Second Century BC’, 5 PM, Gibson Room, Cocke Hall. (Page Barbour Lecture)
  • November 3 (Thurs.), Matthew Canepa (University of Minnesota), ‘Theorizing Cross-Cultural Interaction between Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity. City as Stage, Art and Ritual as Statecraft’, 5:30 PM, Campbell 153.
  • November 9 (Wed.), Inci Delemen (Istanbul University), ‘The City of Perge’, 6:30 PM, 160 Campbell Hall (Title and date subject to change). (AIA Lecture, co-sponsored with American Friends of Turkey)





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