2025-09-04
- For centuries, syphilis and other treponemal diseases (bejel and yaws) were understood as “New World” exports, brought to Afro-Eurasia as part of the Columbian Exchange after 1492. But recent paleopathology and aDNA studies have demonstrated the presence of these diseases in the “Old World,” too, while Dr. Salmon’s own research has helped to prove their existence in medieval Europe. In this...
2024-12-17 - Prof. Antony Augoustakis has just co-edited a collection of essays “Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception” with Prof. Stavros Frangoulidis and Thea S. Thorsen in honor of Prof. Stephen Harrison of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. This collection brings together twenty-eight chapters that celebrate both Stephen’s distinguished teaching and research career as a...
2024-10-30 - Prof. Augoustakis has just co-edited a collection of essays “Lux: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature” with Dr. Myrto Aloumpi (University of Crete). This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on many topics in Greek and Latin literature in a wide-ranging number of authors and genres, including Greek epic and lyric poetry, from Homer to Pindar and...- 2024-10-01 - Click to read!
- 2024-02-16 - From the National Hellenic Museum Facebook page: On Saturday, the National Hellenic Museum was filled with the love of Greek history and culture and a tangible reminder of the enduring legacy of Hellenism. Serving as a center for Greek and Greek American culture, the museum was chosen by the University of Illinois and the Consulate General of Greece in Chicago as the site of their celebration to...
- 2024-01-29 - Craig Williams explores links between American Indians and classical languages and literatures
2024-01-17 - Plato from Venice to Illinois Greek Language throughout the centuries