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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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The International Conference on “Plato and Lyric Poetry” will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, 2024 in Royce 306. All welcome!
Full conference schedule and speakers’ abstracts: https://t.co/1e5ifSukwO pic.twitter.com/BlGIjDEpqB— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) April 22, 2024
Please join us for a talk given by Associate Professor Alex Walthall (University of Texas at Austin) on Monday, May 13 at 12:00 PM.
The lecture entitled “A City in Transition: Reflections on Recent Investigations at Morgantina (Sicily),” will be held in Dodd 247. All are welcome! pic.twitter.com/C5XcoGUwKy— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) April 19, 2024
Breathtaking new paintings were found at the ancient city of Pompeii in a new excavation reported by the BBC:https://t.co/mhUWPVeKrO pic.twitter.com/49DNkYQGwk
— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) April 11, 2024