Associate Professor Patrick Glauthier wins the James Wright Sustaining Faculty Excellence award which is given to to newly tenured and promoted faculty who have made significant contributions as teacher scholars.

William "Bill" C. Scott began his career at Dartmouth in 1966 as part of a cohort that reimagined and significantly expanded the Department of Classics. Bill had a range of interests in Greek literature, from Euripides to Sophocles to Aeschylus, but his greatest intellectual passion was exploring the works of Homer.

Kristina Guild Douglass '07 is a trailblazer in community-engaged archaeology.

The Annual Gino and Adriana Zarbin Memorial Lecture was held on Thursday November 6th at 4:30pm. Dartmouth Hall 105. The department welcomed Ellen Perry, PhD from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester MA to speak on "Tinted Antiquity, From Cornish to Constantinople,".

The Classics Department gathered in Reed Hall on thursday May 22nd 2025 to celebrate student excellence in research and language study. We also congratulate Alison Sasaki who presented her honors thesis, "Menagerie of Misogyny: Animal Metaphors and Gender in Archaic-Classical Greek Literature", under the advisement of Professor Alexandra Schultz.

She will pursue a master's degree in education, public policy, and equity in Glasgow.

In March, two Dartmouth Classics students, Gideon Gruel '26 and Batari Laksono '26, participated in the Classical Association of New England's Annual Meeting at Yale University in New Haven, Conneticut.

This year's Benefactors Lecture was held Thursday May 1st 2025. Guest speakers Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert gave a talk on "Reading and Performing 'The New Euripides'."

In partnership with Rauner Special Collections Library - and with the help and expertise of Instrument Core Facility Manager Paul Defino and Instrument Specialist Chris Snyder of the Chemistry Department - senior lecturer Jenny Lynn is embarking on an exciting scholarly investigation. Jenny arranged for Paul and Chris to co-conduct multiple experiments to identify pigments (and so their compounds) in several of Rauner Library's pre-1600 manuscript fragments using Raman spectroscopy. This technique uses a source of monochromatic light, usually a laser, to determine a sample's molecular makeup.