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McClanahan Lecture: Cracking a Late Bronze Age Code

April 15, 2021

Dr. Nakassis will review how the decipherment of Linear B happened and what insights it continues to provide to scholars of early Greece, almost 70 years after Michael Ventris’ magnificent discovery.

Bocklin's painting of the cyclops, polyphemus battling Odysseus

McClanahan Lecture: Nobody's Monster

Feb. 18, 2021

Dr. Callier explores the Cyclops' appearances from archaic Greece to the early Roman Empire. Thursday, February 18th at 7pm.

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McClanahan Essay Prize: Maternal Dreams

Feb. 4, 2021

Our 2020 McClanahan Essay Prize winner, Florencia Foxley, discusses the power of Maternity in ancient Greek literature. Thursday, February 4th at 5pm.

Roman Emperor Augustus from Narona, Croatia

Across a Narrow Sea: Ancient Greeks and Romans in the eastern Adriatic

Dec. 2, 2020

Often neglected by Classical scholars, the coastal region of Dalmatia in southern Croatia held significant appeal to the ancient Greeks and Romans for over a thousand years.

Landscape of the Western Argolid region of Southern Greece

McClanahan Lecture: In the Shadow of Argos

Nov. 5, 2020

Come and hear how this area of Southern Greece has responded to the tides of 6,000 years of inhabited history.

Historic photo of family at gravesite

Archaeology and Demography at Local Cemeteries

Oct. 28, 2020

Erin Baxter explores the history, demographics and archaeology of Colorado cemeteries and shares findings of CU-Boulder student-led research at the Colombia cemetery.

Colorado Classics Day 2019

Colorado Classics Day 2020

Oct. 3, 2020

On Saturday October 3rd, the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Department of Classics is proud to (virtually) host Colorado Classics Day, an educational outreach event connecting middle- and high-school students from across the state with faculty at Boulder and other colleges throughout Colorado. Students will learn fun facts about the ancient world, see how college Classicists teach their favorite subjects, and even get advice about majoring in Classics or pursuing it as a career!

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Congratulations Class of 2020!

Congratulations to all of our Classics Graduates!

Fulvia in recline (Pavel Svedomsky (1849-1904))

Fulvia and the Perusine War

March 5, 2020

Fulvia and the Perusine War Celia Schultz, University of Michigan Thursday, March 5th I 5:00p.m. I HUMN 135 Who was Fulvia? Was she the driving force during the siege of Perugia in 43 BCE, leading men into battle? This lecture will explore the contradictory literary and material sources surrounding Fulvia,...

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2020 Fountain Symposium

March 1, 2020

Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic World

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