Congratulations to Giulia Sissa on the publication of A Cultural History of Ideas, co-edited with Clifford Ando, as part of the Bloomsbury A Cultural History of Ideas series https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-history-of-ideas-9781350007550/ Professor Sissa…
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Professor Amy Richlin delivers the 2022 Jerome Lectures in Michigan and Rome
Published: November 21, 2022Professor Amy Richlin gave seven lectures this Fall on the topic of “Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica” for the Thomas Spencer Jerome lecture series. The lectures were delivered…
Read MoreProfessor Alex Purves delivers the Cambridge 2022 Corbett Lecture
Published: November 18, 2022This Fall Professor Alex Purves delivered the annual Corbett Lecture at Cambridge University, entitled “Once and Ever: Waiting for the Future in Homer’s Iliad.” A recording of the lecture will…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Bryant Kirkland’s book reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement
Published: November 16, 2022Assistant Professor Bryant Kirkland was delighted to have his new book Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: criticism, imitation, reception (Oxford, 2022) reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, a venerable general-interest publication with…
Read MoreCongratulations to Prof Kirkland!
Published: July 15, 2022Congratulations to Assistant Professor Bryant Kirkland on the publication of his first book, *Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception*, out today from Oxford University Press! https://tinyurl.com/3r5jktcs
Read MoreTeaching Abortion Ancient and Modern in a Post-Roe v Wade World
Published: July 1, 2022Prof Richlin has co-authored an SCS blog post with University of Michigan Classics colleague Prof Bruce Frier entitled “‘Deeply rooted in history’: Teaching abortion ancient and modern in a post-Roe…
Read MoreHelen Caldwell Awards
Published: June 23, 2022Warm congratulations to Nicholas Guymon, Cindy Liu, and Dido Wang, all winners of the 2022 Helen Caldwell Award for Outstanding Major. This is the highest honor the Department of Classics…
Read MoreCongratulations, Class of 2022!
Published: June 23, 2022Congratulations to the Class of 2022 on behalf of the Classics Department! You did it! On behalf of the entire Department of Classics, we want to congratulate you on all…
Read MoreWelcome Hannah Čulík-Baird!
Published: May 12, 2022UCLA Classics is thrilled to welcome a new professor to our faculty: Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird will join the department this Fall as Associate Professor of Classics. Hannah received her PhD…
Read MoreWelcome to CPFP Fellow Julio Cesar Vega-Payne
Published: May 1, 2022
We are delighted to announce that Julio Cesar Vega-Payne will be joining our Department as one of five new UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows in 2022-23. Julio earned his PhD in…
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