2022-09-01
- New book by Professor Antony Augoustakis
2022-05-09 - New Book By Professor Antony Augoustakis- 2022-04-22 - Classics graduate student Ky Merkley has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award given by the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. The award recognizes Ky’s creation of “Trans in Classics,” a community organization dedicated to supporting and foregrounding trans scholars and scholarship in the field of Classics. ...
2022-04-04 - George Reveliotis, BA LAS 96, donor of the Classics $1.5 million Endowment in Hellenic Studies (2019) and recipient of the LAS Quadrangle Award (2020) received the 2020 Special Service award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South at the association’s annual meeting held this year in person at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Prof. Augoustakis from Classics read...
2022-04-04 - The Blues of Achilles: An Adaptation of the Iliad in Song will be performed by Joe Goodkin on Saturday, April 9 at 11:00AM in the Lucy Ellis Lounge.
2022-04-01 - High school is a time for learning, making friends, and discovering passions and hobbies, but for many students, it’s overshadowed by something no teenager should have to worry about: gun violence in their hallways and in their community. It’s not an easy thing to talk about, whether you’re 16-years-old or past your teenage years, but classics professor Angeliki Tzanetou was determined to make...
- 2022-03-07 - Professor Antony Augoustakis walks around the Main Quad and talks about Classics at UIUC.
- 2022-02-02 - Well deserved honors!
2022-01-24 - Antony Augoustakis has just published with Bloomsbury (January 2022) an edited collection of essays called Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City. This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and...- 2021-11-12 - Antony Augoustakis, Associate Director for the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics and Professor of Classics, is the recipient of the 2021 Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award for his work with the Department of Classics. This award recognizes outstanding academic leadership and vision by an...
- 2021-07-10 - Kaplan is spending the summer brushing up on his Greek and engaging in research with the Book History Lab at the University of Athens through the Greek Studies on Site program. Read more here.
2021-04-02 - Professor Dan Leon publishes new book on Arrian of Nicomedia as a historical thinker: Arrian the Historian: Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire. This book enriches broader understandings of the way history is written and sheds new light on intellectual culture in the Roman Empire.- 2021-03-15 - The Daily Illini recenty published an article about the performance of "The Suppliants", a colloaboration effort between the Department of the Classics and the European Union Center. You can read the full article here