Three seniors defended their thesis on Thursday, May 26, 2022. Awards were handed out for the Atherton 1883 Greek Prize, the Class of 1846 Prize in Latin, and the Justin Firestone '92 Memorial Prize.
Helene Foley, Claire Tow Professor of Classics at Columbia University, was the Benefactors' speaker this year and spoke about the Athenian old comic poet Aristophanes engages with the tragic poet Euripides in three comedies, Acharnians, Peace, and Women at the Thesmophoria. The lecture was May 12, 2022.
Members of the Classics and Art History departments recently 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.
The department welcomes Peter Martin, who will be joining us for Spring term while Professor Christesen is on leave. He will be teaching two courses: CLST 11.13 and CLST 14.
A group of students met in Dartmouth Library's Rauner Special Collections Library to decipher handwritten texts from the Middle Ages. The class—"Latin Paleography," co-taught by Jennifer Lynn, language program director, Department of Classics, and medievalist Cecilia Gaposchkin, a professor and chair of the Department of History.