The Department of Classics is delighted to welcome you to Dartmouth! This page lets you know about some of the opportunities that will be open to you here for studying Latin or Greek, ancient history, mythology, archaeology, ancient philosophy and related subjects.
RANDALL KUHLMAN, Center for Object Study Attendant and Scheduling Assistant
Members of the Classics and Art History departments had the opportunity to meet with Stratos Efthymiou, who is the Consul General of Greece in Boston, when he visited the Dartmouth Campus on February 18, 2022.
Anne Johnakin '23 made a stone and clay oven to test fuels used in ancient ceramics.
A group of students met in Dartmouth Library's Rauner Special Collections Library to decipher handwritten texts from the Middle Ages.
Murray and her colleagues argue that women could have been the true potter-artisans of this society. Hruby, who describes Murray and her students' paper as "extraordinarily well-reasoned," is in the process of using fingerprints to shed further light on Greek potters.
Classics is now the proud owner of this pendant designed and made by Nelly Mendoza-Mendoza '19, using the ancient technique of gold granulation. Read more here about Nelly's method and see more of her designs.
The intrepid students of Latin 1 braved late-October rain and cold to learn more about the use of funerary inscriptions as a historical source.
