Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. In her talk, Professor Prins asks what is the past and future of classical models for English versification? Nineteenth-century ideas about the revival of classical meters in English...
Virgil’s particular attention to human suffering has long been identified as a defining aspect of his poetry, but critics have had widely different views on the politics of Virgilian pathos. Is empathy for the defeated in the Aeneid a way of undermining the triumphalist claims of Augustus (e.g. Putnam 1965)? Or does the poem’s famous...
Liam Albrittain, "Sapphic Brushstrokes: Systems of Color and Visual Contrast in Sappho, Hesiod and Homer" Mary K. Anastasi, “Endnotes: Closure and the End of a Collection in Fronto's Ad Marcum Caesarem et Invicem Book 5” Julianna Lewis, "The Antithesis of Elegy: Hands in Ovid's Amores” Unfortunately, given recent adjustments in campus Covid-related policies and recommendations, we will NOT be...
Dodd 248. Orientation to the MA & PhD in Classics for all new graduate students
Dodd 248: Welcome luncheon and orientation for the entering class of Post-baccalaureate students in Classics.
Orientation for all students TA-ing in the Classics department 22-23. Dodd 248. Please arrive promptly.
Undergraduate, graduate and postbacc students are warmly invited to attend the free matinee performance of Oedipus the King by Deaf West Theater Company at the Getty Villa. Please contact Neli Petrosyan (npetrosyan@humnet.ucla.edu) if you are interested in attending this event. A limited number of tickets are available. https://www.getty.edu/news/deaf-west-theatre-debuts-at-getty-villas-outdoor-theatre-with-a-fresh-take-on-sophocles-oedipus/
Come and meet other students and faculty from the Classics Department at an informal mixer before classes begin! Learn more about the Classics department and the Classics club. Dodd 248 / outside in front of Dodd Hall (place will be confirmed nearer the time).
Please join us for our beginning of year reception and for the awarding of the Helen Caldwell Prizes in Beginning Greek and Latin.
