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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
2021-03-08 - An endowment to the Classics Library honors the late professor John Kevin Newman.
2021-03-08 - Antony Augoustakis, Professor of Classics, is the co-author (with Neil W. Bernstein of Ohio University) of a new work that offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ epic Punica.
2021-02-22 - The European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will host a virtual performance of "The Suppliants" by Aeschylus, a tragedy about migration and asylum. The performance will include an international, diverse cast, including American, British, and Greek actors. The director Paul O’Mahony and the actors are members of the innovative and acclaimed Out of Chaos Theatre in the...- 2020-12-11 - An Odyssey of their own: Classics Club members read from Homer’s “Odyssey” in worldwide event In late October of 2020, Simon Kaplan, president of the UIUC ...
- 2020-11-23 - Dr. Maria Hadjipolycarpou's CLCV 120 Storytelling class is featured in Instructor Stories at CITL. In Maria’s course, “Storytelling and Transformation: Narratives of Self from Homer to Arianna Huffington” (CLCV 120), students study epic and tragic works of classical Greek literature, as well as philosophical ideas of self and soul by modern writers and...
- 2020-11-23 - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Classics, has been recommended by the selection committee of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for an appointment as a Fellow in the Center during the 2021-2022 academic year. Her appointment is pending approval from the U of I Board of Trustees at its next meeting, in January. The appointment includes one semester of release time. During...
- 2020-11-23 - The family of the late Professor of Classics John Kevin Newman has established an endowment in support of the University of Illinois Classics Library Collection. We are profoundly grateful to Professor Newman's wife, Dr. Frances Newman, and their children, Alexandra, John, and Victoria. Thanks to their wonderful generosity, the John Kevin Newman Memorial Fund will help the Classics...
- 2020-10-29 - Students from Professor Tzanetou's CLCV 160 Religion of Ancient Greece and Rome class visit the Spurlock collection in groups of 5! Great experience with all cautions and measures taken under the pandemic, but taking full advantage of our many resources at Illinois!
2020-10-12 - Emeritus Professor of Classics David Sansone publishes a new commentary on Plato's Menexenus by Cambridge University Press. Here Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned...
2020-09-17 - George Reveliotis (BA 1996) is the recipient of the distinguished LAS Dean's Quadrangle Award for 2020. George Reveliotis is the founder and managing partner in Reveliotis Law, P.C. He has been a strong supporter of the Department of Classics; in addition to previous gifts that...