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During the summer of 2016, University of Arizona Classics faculty and graduate students, along with other archeologists on their international team, excavated human bones at a sacrificial altar to Zeus on Mount Lykaion in Greece. The team believes…

An insatiable curiosity about all things human and cosmic drove Thomas D. Worthen’s life. In the 1950s he entered the academy at Cal Tech as an avid student of astronomy and physics (he also played on the football team there), and following a…

Please join us for the upcoming Tucson Humanities Festival, October 10-17. All event information can be found on the festival’s website, humanitiesfestival.arizona.edu. All events will be at the UA Poetry Center (http://poetry.arizona.edu), unless…

by Emily Litvack  First things first. Why all the clothes? The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece were resurrected for the modern world during the summer of 1896 in Athens, Greece. Spectators clad in Victorian era frock coats, top hats, and cravats…

Please find below a schedule for FALL 2016 GRADUATE ORIENTATION for CLASSICS! Monday, August 15 11:00 am-12:00 pm (LSB 246): New Students’ Meeting with Director of Graduate Studies (mandatory) 12:00-12:30 pm (LSB 246): Graduate Student Meeting (all…

Classics will be offering Intensive Latin in Summer 2016. For registration information, visit:  http://summer-winter.arizona.edu. Summer Session I, June 6 - July 7, 2016Intensive Latin 112 (Moreland & Fleischer), 9:00-12:45 daily, 6 units Summer…

Join University of Arizona Classics for the Annual Classics Awards Ceremony! The event begins at 4:30pm at the Kiva Theater (at the Student Union) on Friday, April 15. Come out and join Classics in a celebration of its students! Reception to follow.

The abstracts of fourteen Classics M.A. students have been accepted by The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS): (first year students) Stephen Czujko, “It’s Rough Being Claudius: Rustication in the Templum Divi Claudii”…

Award Recipients for Study Abroad in Italy Congratulations to students in Classics and Anthropology who were awarded funding for the summer 2016 Arizona in Italy study abroad program! Students were awarded full and partial funding from the Joseph…

Please join us for the Spring 2016 Classics Graduate Student Colloquium, where our graduate students share their most recent scholarship! Learning Services Building, Room 246 Friday, March 4, 1 PM - 3 PM; Friday, March 11, 1 PM - 3 PM Program for…

  The NEW application deadline for all UA summer study abroad programs is February 25. Classics is pleased to offer faculty-led study abroad opportunities in Greece and Italy during Summer 2016 (pending sufficient enrollments). More information on…

The Centre of the Greek Language and the Department of Classics of Aristotle University will host the 9th Trends in Classics Conference on “Greek Epigram: Dialect, Diction and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram” in Thessaloniki from May…