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 […]
James Uden receives Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
Associate Professor James Uden recently received the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, presented by Dean Ann Cudd of the College of Arts & Sciences. Professor Uden has brought infectious passion and invigorating course design to the Classical Studies department, widening the department’s reach and growing student interest. His emphasis on relating the lived experiences of […]
Congratulations to Joshua Allbright!
Congratulations to Joshua Allbright, a major in Ancient Greek & Latin with minors in French and Modern Greek, for defending his senior honors thesis. Josh’s thesis is titled “Love in Thucydides: A Study of Love and Rhetoric in the History of the Peloponnesian War.” Professor Stephen Esposito was Josh’s thesis advisor, and Professor Jay Samons […]
Yanni Metaxas wins Center for Hellenic Studies Internship
BU Modern Greek Student Yanni Metaxas wins Center for Hellenic Studies 2016 Internship Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies has recently awarded a summer internship in Greece to Yanni Metaxas, a minor in Modern Greek Studies who attended the BUPh Summer Study in Greece in 2014. A former Core Curriculum student and a major in […]
Learn Modern Greek this Summer!
Let’s learn Greek! This summer at BU, we’ll run a course in Beginning Modern Greek for high school and college students. Registration will start from Feb. 25 and go until July 5th, and the course will carry university credit. For more information, visit the Summer Term website or contact us (classics@bu.edu)!
BU Philhellenes Video
Check out this fun video about the BU Philhellenes Summer Study in Athens!