Monthly Archives: February 2010
Ashes2Art: Virtual Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments
| February 22, 2010 | Posted by admin under The Modern Classicist |
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A white paper is now available about the exciting Ashes2Art project at Coastal Carolina University. Faculty and students involved in the project are developing digital models of Delos and Delphi. To learn more about the project, see the Ashes2Art website or download the white paper from the NEH’s Library of Funded Projects.
Consultant for the 2010 Greek Course
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by admin under News |
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We are pleased to announce that Michael Gagarin, the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, will serve as the faculty consultant for Greek 394: Literature of the 4th Century. Professor Gagarin’s research interests include Greek law, literature, and philosophy. He is the author of seven books, most recently Writing Greek Law (Cambridge UP, 2008), and the series editor for “the Oratory of Classical Greece,” published by the University of Texas. For his work on the laws of ancient Crete, Professor Gagarin received an NEH Collaborative Research Grant with Paula Perlman in 2006. For more information, please see his faculty page.
More information about the Faculty Development Seminars in June is available here.
Consultant for the 2010 Latin Course
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by admin under News |
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We are pleased to announce that Richard Tarrant, the Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University, will serve as the faculty consultant for Latin 393: Literature of the Neronian Period. Professor Tarrant’s main areas of interest include Latin poetry and Greek and Roman tragedy. He has written commentaries of Seneca’s Agamemnon (Cambridge UP 1977) and Thyestes (Scholars Press 1985). In 2004, he completed a critical edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Oxford Classical Texts). Currently, he is writing a commentary on Aeneid XII, and a book on Horace’s Odes. For more information, please see his faculty page.
More information about the Faculty Development Seminars in June is available here.
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2010
| February 10, 2010 | Posted by admin under News |
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The Undergraduate Research Symposium will be March 26-28, 2010 at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. Students should submit abstracts at http://chs.surs.questionpro.com/ by February 22, 2010.
Program and hotel information will be available shortly. If students and their faculty sponsors are unable to come to Washington, D.C., the CHS will make arrangements for virtual participation.
