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  • Roman Fresco of women dancing
    Subaltern Women, Sexual Violence, and Trauma in Ovid's AmoresDr. Jessica Wise Classics Department, Colorado CollegeFriday, April 20 3:30 PM in HUMN 1B80 Subaltern Women, Sexual Violence, and Trauma in Ovid's AmoresA study of
  • Photo of several students who are McNair Scholars
    McNair Scholars are from underserved backgrounds and demonstrate strong academic potential for graduate school. They are first-generation and low-income students, or students historically underrepresented in graduate education,
  • Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire, Photo © Tate, Gallery, London
    Lecture by Brian McGing, Trinity College DublinRome Behaving Badly: Appian’s Critique of Roman Imperialism During the RepublicMonday, April 9, 2018 5:00 - 6:30 PM HUMN 135 Joseph Mallord William Turner The Decline of the
  • Image of students marching with torches at a university
    On genetics, whiteness, and "historian hearsay bullsh*t": How to talk about race in the ancient world after Charlottesville Denise McCoskey Professor of Classics Affiliate in Black World Studies Miami Univerity (Ohio)Monday, March
  • Greek coin
    Greece in Transition in the Age of Alexander
  • Picture of city of Sikyon, a Roman statue, and Roman coins
    McClanahan Lecture SeriesThe Lost City of Sikyonpresented by Sarah JamesTuesday, February 27, 2018 7:00 PM in HUMN 250 Sikyon is probably the most important ancient Greek city that you’ve never heard of. Known for centuries from
  • Painted Greek Pottery
    Though ancient Greece and Rome boasted the superiority of the grape, beer production and consumption was at the core of Mediterranean diet and nutrition dating back to the Bronze Age.Travis Rupp, CU Boulder adjunct professor
  • Jason Pedicone speaking to a group of students in Greece
    Jason Pedicone from The Paideia Institute 5:00 PM in HUMN 1B80 Image from Society for Classical Studies May, 2017 NewsletterThis talk tells the story of the founding and growth of the Paideia Institute, and provides some lessons
  • Statue of "Rape of the Sabine Women" by Giambologna, 1583
    Elegizing the Roman Theater:Ars Amatoria 1.89-134 Winner of the 2017 Mary E.V McClanahan Essay Graduate Prize, Samuel L. Kindick, will present his paper, "Elegizing the Roman Theater: Ars Amatoria 1.89-134", on Monday, December 4
  • Picture of Marlon Brando being Julius Caesar
    Wednesday, November 29 7:00 PM in HUMN 150 presented by Tyler LansfordClassical Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Among Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays, Julius Caesar is arguably the most Roman in both substance and form: not
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