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!
Classics Department BU Today Articles
Recently, BU Today has written two articles about the Department of Classical Studies. In one, they profile Chair Stephen Scully’s CL 305 Topics in Myth course, which focuses on various origin stories both mythical and scientific. We are very proud of this advanced mythology course and of Professor Scully’s interdisciplinary approach. Read the article here. […]
“Gods and Heroes: Western Arts and the Classical Tradition” at Beijing University
A fabulous exhibition called “Gods and Heroes: Western Arts and the Classical Tradition” is showing at Beijing University’s Arther M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology from Nov. 2015 to Jun. 2016. Beijing University is the most prestigious university in China where now the most gifted Chinese students aspire to learn more about the classical […]
Modern Greek Literature Donation
Thank you to Katrina Barry and her family for the generous donation of Greek books in memory of her grandmother, Pelagia Balodimos. The donation will hopefully be used as a Greek Literature library for students and faculty. Euxaristo!
BU Philhellenes Greek Night 2015!
Please join the BU Philhellenes for a great night of fun, food, music, dancing, and more at our Greek Night this Thursday, November 19 at 6pm in the Terrace Lounge, 2nd Floor of the GSU (behind the Ziskind Lounge)!! Everyone is welcome! Tickets are available for purchase for $5 at the BU Philhellenes table in the […]
Graduation 2015 Pictures
Enjoy some pictures from the Classical Studies Department’s 2015 Graduation. Congrats! Photos courtesy of Commencement Photos, Inc. of Tewksbury, MA
BU Professor Uden Hosts ‘Literary Interactions’ Conference
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies James Uden hosted a conference entitled “Literary Interactions under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian 3: ‘Literary Interactions across Linguistic, Cultural and Religious Boundaries.’” “The third conference in the international research project ‘Literary Interactions under Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian’ was held at Boston University, organized by James Uden and funded through the generous assistance […]
New Language Learning website
Check out the new one-stop shopping site for information about language study here at BU. Find all the majors and minors that require language study, a list of all 28 languages taught at BU (including Ancient Greek, modern Greek, and Latin) and so much more! Bookmark it now: http://www.bu.edu/cas/academics/undergraduate-education/language-learning-at-cas/