News & Events

Upcoming Events

Lectures

Center for the Study of Ancient Religions

On Thursday, October 29, at 3:30pm in Classics 21, Claude Calame, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, will deliver a lecture entitled: "A Heroine for a Goddess: Tragic Aetiology, Cultic Landscapes and Gendered Rites of Passage in Classical Athens."

Fall 2009 Undergraduate Convivium

On Wednesday, November 4, at 5:00pm, Prof. Mark Payne will present a screening of Lars von Trier's Medea and lead a discussion on the film. The screening and discussion will take place in Stuart 104, and there will be refreshments. This is a great opportunity to see the lighter  and darker sides of the classical world and to get to know the classics faculty. We look forward to seeing you there!

New Hires

We are delighted to welcome Michèle Lowrie, who joins us as Professor of Classics from New York University. Her work focuses on Roman culture and literature, with interests in politics and reception. She has published Horace's Narrative Odes (1997), and her Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome is due to appear in October 2009. She has co-edited with Sarah Spence The Aesthetics of Empire and the Reception of Vergil (a special issue of Literary Imagination 8.3, 2006) and edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace's Odes and Epodes (projected publication date September 2009). Future projects include work on the idea of security at Rome, the exemplumin stories about foundation and state violence during the collapse of the Roman Republic, and more generally on representations of the law in Roman literature.

Faculty and Staff Accolades

Clifford Ando has been appointed as Gastprofessor at the University of Munster and has received a Fellowship from the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt; he has also been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation for 2010-2011.

David Martinez has been awarded a Franke Institute Fellowship and a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Jonathan Hall was one of the recipients of the 2009 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

In June, Kathleen Fox received the Marlene F. Richman Award for Excellence and Dedication in Service to Students.

Student Accolades

Congratulations to Geoff Benson, whose essay, "Archimedes' Cattle of the Sun and the Limits of Euhemerism", received an "honorable mention" in the adjudication of the 2009 John J. Winkler Prize.

Honorary Degree Conferred on Anthony M. Snodgrass

The Department was delighted to be able recently to host Anthony Snodgrass, Laurence Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, during his visit to Chicago to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the 498th Convocation of the University. The honorary doctorate was awarded in recognition of Snodgrass' immense contributions to the study of Early Iron Age Greece, his creation of a new self-critical synthesis between literary texts and material culture, his pioneering development of non-destructive methods in intensive archaeological field survey, and his mentoring of an entire generation of classical archaeologists and ancient historians at universities around the world.