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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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Classicists and Oregonians Sonia Sabnis (Professor, Reed College) and Jasmine Akiyama-Kim (BA, University of Oregon 2015; currently PhD Candidate at UCLA) enjoy the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Woodburn, Oregon! pic.twitter.com/83ucLQlZAc
— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) March 28, 2024
Professor Sarah Morris will be presenting “Out of Anatolia: The Trojan War from Hatti to Hissarlik” for the Cornell Department of Classics 2024 Townsend Lecture Series on April 10th, 12th, and 15th.
For more details check out: https://t.co/cNhHmjzW4F pic.twitter.com/W1owi7KYec— UCLA Classics (@ClassicsAtUCLA) March 28, 2024
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