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The UCLA Department of Classics is one of three Humanities departments at UCLA ranked in the top ten nationally in the last National Research Council report. Classics forms the foundation for the Humanities. Philology, philosophy, government (including democracy), the theater, linguistics, archaeology, literary theory and many other fields have their origins in the Classics. The UCLA Department of Classics has a robust undergraduate and graduate program. Each year we teach an average of 2,000 undergraduate students various aspects of Greek and Roman culture, literature, philology, archaeology, and history. We have a dedicated and diverse faculty of scholars and teachers,...
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Sander Goldberg’s new essay entitled “Confessions of a Reluctant Philologist” on Classics For All website
Prof. Sander Goldberg has a new essay posted on the Classics For All website entitled "Confessions of a Reluctant Philologist" You can find it here. He will...
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Undergraduate student Margaret Pham delivers a talk at the University of Tennessee
Congratulations to undergraduate Margaret Pham who has just returned to UCLA from the University of Tennessee after delivering a paper at the Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference....
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Hannah Čulík-Baird publishes new article “The Image of the Slave in Cicero’s Catilinarians.”
Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird has a new published article "The Image of the Slave in Cicero's Catilinarians." Rhetorica 41.4, pp385-411. Abstract: "Are we not condemned to live in...
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On March 10th, Prof. Sarah Beckmann and “Pompeii & the Bay of Naples” (CL 152b) visited the Getty Villa! Curator Ken Lapatin led a tour focused on the architectural history of the Malibu site and the Roman villa that inspired it, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Thanks, Ken! pic.twitter.com/EOpJEcN3sU
— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) March 18, 2024
Spring Break will be a busy one for our classicist and political scientist colleague Giulia Sissa, who continues her exciting work on the emotions in an invited lecture at the Collegio Ghislieri, an historic (1567), highly selective college in Pavia.
— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) March 18, 2024
Please join us for a talk given by Professor Alex Dressler (University of Wisconsin-Madison) on Thursday, April 4 at 4:00 PM.
The lecture, entitled “The Way and Its Poor: Bareness of Life in Roman Aesthetic Theory,” will be held in Dodd 248. All are welcome! pic.twitter.com/bJT4kp7l1a— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) March 15, 2024