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
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...