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Classical Reception in the Midwest Colloquium
On Friday, November 7th, the Classics Department, supported by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Central Illinois, and the SLCL Support for Conferences and Workshops Award, will host a colloquium on Classical Reception in the Midwest from 2:30 - 4:30 P.M. in the Lucy Ellis Lounge....
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Dr. Marylynn Salmon (Smith College) Ancient Evidence for Congenital Syphilis in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece: Texts and Artworks Wednesday, September 17th at 5:00pm in Lincoln Hall 1002
For centuries, syphilis and other treponemal diseases (bejel and yaws) were understood as “New World” exports, brought to Afro-Eurasia as part of the Columbian Exchange after 1492. But recent paleopathology and aDNA studies have demonstrated the presence of these diseases in the “Old World,” too,...
Undergraduate Sight Translation Prize
A book prize awarded to the best performing undergraduate in one of the translation contests of the year (CAMWS Latin Translation Exam, Eta Sigma Phi, National Latin Exam,
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Augoustakis co-edits "Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception"
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-...
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Lux: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
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-...