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.
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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.
[more]Paul Christesen '88 was awared a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Alexandra Schultz has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC.
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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'."
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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.
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