When we study William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth in Indian schools with so much enthusiasm, why can’t we study Indian classics with the same gusto? That was the question that set off Rohan ...
Professor Michael Scott wants to dispense with one of the greatest misnomers about the study of the ancient world – that it is a subject which is no longer relevant. “There is a misconception that ...
Once upon a time, classics was viewed by the Western world as the strongest educational foundation, a portal to a civilized life and a high-level career. But even when I majored in Ancient Greek many ...
Europe’s fascination with the classical past flourished during the early modern period and led to the widespread adoption of a classical education and the appreciation of Greek and Roman art and ...
William & Mary faculty member Molly Swetnam-Burland teaches courses on Roman archaeology and art, the cities of Rome and Pompeii and Latin language and literature. She researches in the areas of Roman ...
In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries ...
On Friday, Oct. 13, more than 100 Cleveland-area high school students studying the Classics will come to University Circle to learn firsthand from scholars of the ancient world. The inaugural Classics ...
I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...
ALL CU Classics courses (but no Independent Studies) satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences’ Gen Ed Arts and Humanities distribution requirement. Further College requirements satisfied by individual ...
With a major motion picture coming out this summer, there’s renewed interest in the 2,700 year old poem “The Odyssey,” and the first woman to translate the ancient Greek text into English is in Iowa ...
St. Mary’s University in Minnesota recently announced that most liberal arts programs at the school will no longer be offered next year, a development that is regarded by many in academia as the ...
C. L. Max Nikias (@uscpres on Instagram) is president of theUniversity of Southern California. He holds faculty appointments in both electrical engineering and the classics. He is a member of the ...