St. Sebastian pleads for the life of those afflicted with the “plague of Justinian” (c.6 CE); oil painting by Josse Leferinxe, end c. 15 CE

Call for Papers: Plague and Pandemic in the Ancient World

June 8, 2023

Call for Papers The 2024 University of Colorado Boulder Classics Graduate Colloquium conference: Plague and Pandemic in the Ancient World Friday, 19 th – Saturday 20 th January, 2024 Keynote Address by Hunter Gardner (University of South Carolina) Through the very trauma they inflict, plagues and pandemics stir conflict and...

Eaton Humanities building from Norlin library

Classics Commencement 2023

May 8, 2023

Department of Classics Commencement Ceremony University of Colorado Boulder Eaton Humanities Building 150 Thursday May 11th, 2023 12-2 pm Download the program here Program Welcome Professor Dimitri Nakassis Department Chair Presentation of Undergraduate Degrees Professor Elspeth Dusinberre Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Presentation of Graduate Degrees Professor Peter Hunt Associate...

Phocion (left), Petain (right)

McClanahan Lecture: Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives?

April 9, 2023

Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives? Professor Peter Hunt Thursday, April 20, 7:00 p.m. Hale Science Building Room 230 & Zoom ( REGISTER HERE ) Free and open to the public Download the poster ABSTRACT This lecture imagines how the Greek biographer Plutarch might write...

Hermopolis covered in mist

McClanahan Lecture: Uncovering the City of the Baboon: New excavations at Hermopolis Magna, Egypt

March 7, 2023

Uncovering the City of the Baboon: New excavations at Hermopolis Magna, Egypt Professor Yvona Trnka-Amrhein Thursday, March 16, 7:00 p.m. Hale Science Building Room 230 & Zoom ( REGISTER HERE ) Free and open to the public Download the poster ABSTRACT In January 2023, ’s Classics Department and the Egyptian...

Fellows Lecture Poster

Swords, Sorcery, and Silliness: A Defense of the Mythical and Fantastic - Lecture

Feb. 23, 2023

Speaker: Jacqueline Fellows 6:00 pm Thursday, March 9 Eaton Humanities, HUMN135 Free and open to the public!

Rachel Dzugan

Congratulations to Rachel Dzugan!

Jan. 18, 2023

Please join us in congratulating doctoral student Rachel Dzugan, who has won a Graduate Part Time Instructor Appreciation Award from the Graduate School in recognition of her “hard work, creativity, and continued excellence in teaching.” As an MA student, Rachel worked as a Teaching Assistant for various courses in Greek...

Mycenae from the north (photo Dimitri Nakassis, 2022)

Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE

Jan. 12, 2023

Dimitri Nakassis's book project, Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE, proposes a new way of understanding the Mycenaean world by taking apart interpretations premised on its essential unity. It shows that these models have failed to account for much of our textual and archaeological evidence and that they are also...

Isis from the Tomb of Nefertari

AIA lecture: Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis

Jan. 12, 2023

Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis Professor Lindsay Mazurek Wednesday, January 25 at 7:00pm Hale Sciences 270 or via Zoom Free and Open to Public REGISTER HERE ABSTRACT When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century...

The Torment of Saint Anthony, attributed to Michelangelo

McClanahan Essay Prize: Athanasius Strikes Back

Dec. 19, 2022

McClanahan Essay Prize Lecture Athanasius Strikes Back: The Life of Antony as a Rebuttal of the Vita Apollonii Jacob Horton, University of Colorado Boulder Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 5:00 p.m. | Eaton Humanities 135 By the 5th century CE, Christian hagiography had become a preeminent form of literature in...

Temple of Apollo at Syracuse

AIA lecture: "New Technologies and Architectural Insights on a 6th-century BCE Temple in Sicily"

Nov. 22, 2022

New Technologies and Architectural Insights on a 6th-century BCE Temple in Sicily Professor Philip Sapirstein Wednesday, November 30 at 7:00pm Paleontology Hall ( Museum of Natural History ) or via Zoom Free and Open to Public REGISTER HERE ABSTRACT This talk presents a recent digital and architectural restudy of...

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