Eleni Constantinou ’20 Awarded Hellenic Women’s Club Scholarship
Classical Civilization major and Modern Greek Studies minor Eleni Constantinou has been awarded the Hellenic Women’s Club scholarship. The award, designed to recognize students who have demonstrated community service, leadership, and academic achievement, is presented annually by the Epsilon Omicron Kappa (Massachusetts) chapter of this national organization. A freshman at Boston University, Ms. Constantinou is […]
Elizabeth Foster ’19 Wins Lalaounis Museum Internship
Classical Studies major Elizabeth Foster has become the first Boston University student to win a prestigious internship at the internationally-acclaimed Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum in Athens. A sophomore and a participant in the 2016 BU Philhellenes Summer Study, Ms. Foster says that she is “very excited to be returning to Athens for this incredible opportunity.” […]
Thomas Palaima’s Lecture at Classical Studies to Broadcast on WBUR, 3/5 @ 9PM
Prof. Thomas Palaima of UT Austin presented “Personal Agency and the Big Switch 1962-64: Thucydides, Bob Dylan and Stanley Kubrick” at the Department of Classical Studies on Monday, February 27th. The lecture will air on Sunday, March 5th on WBUR’s “Boston University World of Ideas” program. WBUR is a Boston University-based public radio station and […]
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 […]