Please join us for a lecture followed by a reception featuring Professor Sarah Morris who will present her talk “Out of Anatolia: Hittites, Homer and the Trojan War” This lecture…
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A Conversation with Author and Professor, Catherine Conybeare
Published: October 13, 2025Please join us for a Book Event featuring author and professor Catherine Conybeare. Professor Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) will facilitate a conversation with the author regarding her new book. All…
Read MoreBetween the Minoans and the Mycenaeans
Published: September 24, 2025
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The Department of Classics Newsletter – Summer ’25 is now live!
Published: September 12, 2025
The Department of Classics’ latest newsletter is now live and available. Check it out on our newsletter page here to find out the latest information on the department!
Read MoreChristopher Moore | “The Plurality of Virtue.”
Published: January 22, 2025
The UCLA Department of Classics is pleased to present a lecture by Professor Christopher Moore, Pennsylvania State University entitled “The Plurality of Virtue.”
Read MoreGiuseppe Pezzini | The Veil of the Name: Comedy in the Aeneid
Published: October 9, 2024
Please join us on Monday, October 28 at 4pm for Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford) who will be speaking on “The Veil of the Name: Comedy…
Read MoreJonathan Prag | “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to the epigraphy of ancient Sicily”
Published: October 7, 2024
The UCLA Department of Classics presents a talk by Jonathan Prag (Oxford University) on Friday, November 22 at 12:00 PM. The lecture entitled “Crossreads and I.Sicily: digital and interdisciplinary approaches to…
Read MorePlato and Lyric Poetry Conference Oct. 18-19
Published: October 3, 2024
Conference Schedule: Friday October 18th, 2024: 9 am. Breakfast 9.25 am Opening remarks Session 1 9.35 am-10.35 am. Glenn Most (University of Chicago): “Pindar’s nomos basileus (Fr. 169 Sn.-M.) in…
Read MoreProfessor Francesca Martelli’s new book is available now
Published: July 25, 2024Hearty congratulations to Prof. Francesca Martelli on the publication of her new book, *Souvenirs of Cicero: Shaping Memory in the Epistulae ad Familiares*!!! The book is now available here.
Read MoreStudent Projects of Prof. Kelly Nguyen’s Asian and Asian American reception of Greco-Roman classical antiquity class
Published: June 10, 2024Spring 2024 Class Photo (not all students present in the photograph) In Spring 2024, Prof. Kelly Nguyen designed and taught the first course ever to focus specifically on Asian and Asian…
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