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...

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...

An endowment to the Classics Library honors the late professor John Kevin Newman.     

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

Emeritus Professor of Classics David Sansone publishes a new commentary on Plato's Menexenus by Cambridge University Press. Here Plato challenges his...

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...