2013-01-01
- Professor Kirk Sanders of the Department of the Classics has been named a recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He will be recognized at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence scheduled for April 23 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.
The peer-nominated award recognizes professors, instructional staff members and graduate teaching assistants who display...
2012-01-01 - "Sebastian Anderson's Classics MA thesis on Archilochus was selected to represent the University of Illinois at the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. This is a very competitive process, and we are thrilled that Sebastian's thesis will represent the University."
2012-01-01 - It is our great pleasure to announce that Professor Brian Walters, currently visiting, will be joining us permanently. He has just accepted our offer of a tenure-track position. Professor Walters, PhD University of California at Los Angeles (2011), is a specialist in Latin Prose Literature (Violence in Cicero). He holds a visiting appointment at our Department this year. He is in the process of...
2012-01-01 - After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former allies. Athenians justified this subjection of their allies by emphasizing their fairness and...