Congratulations to Prof. Stephen Scully on Achieving Full Professorship!
The Department of Classical Studies warmly congratulates our newest full professor, Steve Scully. Since joining the Department as an Assistant Professor in 1982, his abiding passion for Greek and Roman poetry, rhetoric, and prose styles, and his delight for Homer and Hesiod, have enriched the lives of his students and the study of Classics at […]
Graduate Student Excels in Translation Prize
The translator Robert Fitzgerald had a strong connection to Massachusetts. Although he was born in Switzerland and travelled throughout the world in a career as a journalist, he was a professor at Harvard from 1964-1981, and claimed that the earliest stages of his Aeneid translation were conceived as he boarded a train at Boston’s South […]
Congratulations to graduate student Colin Pang!
Congratulations to fifth-year graduate student Colin Pang, who delivered a paper on Saturday at the International Society for Late Antique Literary Studies annual conference at Haverford College. The paper, entitled ‘Quintus of Smyrna’s Critique of Homeric Arete’, focused on a fascinating text: the Posthomerica, an Imperial-age sequel to the Iliad. Colin argued that Quintus, long […]
Congratulations to undergraduate Evan Armacost on his paper acceptance!
Congratulations to Greek and Latin double major Evan Armacost! His paper, entitled ‘Fools Gold: Representation of the Golden Age in Virgil and Seneca’, has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of CAMWS-SS (the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Southern Section). In his paper, Evan examines a passage from Seneca’s tragedy ‘Hercules […]
A Recent MA Graduate Brings Together China, Greece and Rome
Liu Tong draws parallels between Roman and Chinese notables When he was in a Greek History class at Boston University, recent MA graduate Liu Tong had an inspired idea. He was impressed by Plutarch’s comparisons between the Greeks and the Romans. But having come to the Classics after literary training in his native China, Tong […]