Fall 2015 courses announced!
Undergraduate courses for the Fall 2015 semester have been announced! Check our course webpage for more information. Many of these descriptions offer more details than those on studentlink. Topics for seminar courses will be added once they become available.
BUPh in the Daily Free Press
Check out the article in the Daily Free Press about the BU Philhellenes Project and an event the group is hosting tonight!
BU in Athens Recap
The BU Philhellenes have returned from their studies and travels in Greece.
Newsletter Available!
The Newsletter has been published on our website. Check out what the faculty, graduates students, and alumni have been up to this year. A special thank you to everyone who contributed. The Newsletter can be found here.
Undergraduate Conference Announced
The Boston University Classics Department is proud to announce a research symposium in which speakers will examine the editorial decisions that shape Homeric epic. We welcome two guest speakers, Professors Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross) and Michael Haslam (University of California, Los Angeles), as well as six BU undergraduates who will speak to […]
‘Modern Philhellenism’ Event Announced
On the occasion of the National Day of Greece, the Consul General, Mrs. Ifigenia Kanara, the Department of Classical Studies and the Boston University Philhellenes invite you to a discussion of MODERN PHILHELLENISM on Friday March 28th at 6:00pm. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A PHILHELLENE? Stop and ask yourself this question. Is it an appreciation of Hellenic […]
‘Aristophanes’ Play Announced!
Announcing the Department of Classical Studies and the Core Curriculum’s annual “Aristophanes” production: Plautus’ Mostellaria (“The Haunted House”). That’s right, for the first time ever, the annual “Aristophanes” play will actually be a Roman Comedy! There will be clever slaves, foolish young men, and prostitutes with complicated backstories! They will get mixed up in hair-brained schemes involving […]
Classics Major Places Second at UROP Symposium
Sydney Shea (CAS’14, Ancient Greek and Latin) won 2nd place poster in the Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium last week for outstanding presentation of her research, Alexandria’s Influence: the Culture of Editing Homeric Manuscripts. For more about undergraduate research in the Classical Studies Department, visit our webpage.
BU Classics Major leads Massachusetts Junior Classical League to Victory
Classical Studies’ own Michael Howard (CAS ’14) was a co-coach of the Massachusetts Junior Classical League’s victorious 2013 Certamen team. At this year’s national competition, the team won the Advanced Certamen competition for the first time ever and won the Intermediate Certamen competition for the second year in a row. Congratulations everyone!
Classics Major a CAS Summer Research Scholar
Emily Mohr, an ancient Greek and Latin major, is a 2011 CAS Summer Research Scholar. Emily’s research is on Gender Distinction in the Religious Traditions of the Roman Empire and her mentor is Professor Varhelyi.