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
2023-12-11 - Classics graduate student Ky Merkley has published an article entitled “Writing Trans Histories with an Ethics of Care, while Reading Gender in Imperial Roman Literature,” in a special issue of the journal Gender and History. The article is available here via open access.- 2023-11-27 - Howard Jacobson, long-time Classics faculty member, passed away on Wednesday, November 22, at the age of 83. A memorial service was held in Silver Springs, Maryland on Friday, November 24. He was a loving and devoted husband, brother, father, father in law, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Respected scholar of the classics and a professor at the University of Illinois since 1968, he...
- 2023-11-13 - Dan Leon, Associate Professor in the Classics Department, is a member of the joint committee of the American Classical League and the Society for Classical Studies charged with revising the 2010 Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation. The committee has recently published the new Guidelines for Latin Teacher Preparation. For further information:...