The Navarino Fund for Modern Greek Studies at Dartmouth College
presents
a double feature by
filmmaker and documentarian
Vassilis Loules
Monday February 25
Thornton Hall 105
6-6:30 pm
«Lela Karayannis, the Fragance of a Heroine»
2005, documentary, 30 min.
The film focuses on the struggle and personality of Lela Karayannis, a legendary heroine of the Greek Resistance, as seen through the...
Roberta Stewart, "
Seeing Caesar's Symbols: Religious Implements on the Coins of Julius Caesar and His Successors," in Concordia Disciplinarum: Essays in ancient coinage, history, and archaeology in honor of William...
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. Roman funerary inscriptions, although they are often heavily abbreviated and sometimes damaged, are very formulaic and thus relatively easy for even beginning students to read. And they are particularly valuable for learning about the lives of people whose stories are often overlooked in other sources, including women, the poor, slaves, and freed...
[more]Students from CLST 24 (Professor Ulrich) and Latin 15 (Professor Kuin) went on a field trip to The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
David Ratzan, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
Haldeman 41, 4:30 pm
Thursday, October 18, 2018, 4:30 pm
Free and open to the public!
The Sortes Astrampsychi (The Lots of Astrampsychus) was an oracle book from the Roman East that worked something like an ancient Magic 8-Ball. One chose from a set menu of questions, like "Will I go abroad?" "Will my wife give birth?" and "Will I win my suit?"; picked a random number between 1 and 10; and magically--and...
[more]Prof. Lynn is joining us this fall as the Language Program Director for the entire first year's worth of courses in Greek and Latin. She comes to us from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught Latin and Greek at all levels for over a decade.
She received her PhD from Columbia University, with a specialty in the poetry of Callimachus. At UCSC she was very involved in the creation of their Center for Innovative Learning, in the Academic Advising Program, and in...
[more]Please join us in welcoming Prof. Scott Arcenas, who will be teaching ancient history for the 2018-19 academic year. With a 2018 PhD from Stanford University, Prof. Arcenas is an expert in the political and economic history of the ancient Mediterranean. In addition to CLST 15 (Alexander and the Macedonian Kings), he will be teaching a special topics class this winter on Democracy, Ancient and Modern, as well as CLST 19 (Methods and Theory in Ancient History) in the spring.
His current...
[more]Annual Zarbin Lecture
Thursday, October 25, 2018
4:30 pm
Moore Hall B03
Reception to follow!
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
Prof. Holmes' research explores the Greco-Roman roots of Western ideas about the physical body, the natural world, matter, and the non-human. She is especially interested in the problems these ideas create for concepts of the subject, ethics, and politics. She also studies the long afterlife of these ideas, especially in twentieth...
[more]IN MEMORIAM: Professor Norman Doenges Generations of Dartmouth students will remember the history lectures on Greece and Rome given by Professor Norman Doenges, who taught in the Classics Department for four full decades, from 1955 until his retirement in 1995. For eleven summers, from 1984 to 1995, Professor Doenges took Dartmouth students to Spain with him to excavate at the Roman colony of Pollentia on the island of Mallorca off the south coast of Spain. Colleagues in the Classics...
[more]Please join us for the Classics Open House during First-Year Orientation. This is a perfect chance to learn more about Classics courses for the coming year -- Fall, Winter, and Spring -- and to meet many of the professors. The event will be held:
Friday, September 7, 2018, Reed 108, 12:00 pm