On Wednesday, September 6th, we gathered as a department to celebrate the start of a new academic year with new and returning faculty, graduate students, and staff members.

This Fall, Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston joins us as an Assistant Professor specializing in Latin literature of the Roman empire.  Coming from Pomona College, Prof. Eccleston received her M.Phil. from Oxford and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, where she wrote a dissertation on Apuleius, now becoming a book entitled “Humanizing Speech: Apuleius and the Ethics of Narration”. 

Professors John Bodel and Graham Oliver, the conference organizers, selected twenty-two papers that addressed a wide range of themes: Harbor Cultures, Refugees and Asylum, Contingency and the ancient economy, New Religions, Slaves and Family, and The Reception of Ancient Historians and Ancient History in the New World.

The Department of Classics is pleased to report the recent publication of two works by Professor Stratis Papaioannou. Professor Papaioannou is an Associate professor of Classics and also the Director of the Program of Medieval Studies. 

A unique collection of nearly 300 books printed by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (ca. 1450-1515) represents the historical vestige of a time before John Carter Brown turned his sights to collecting Americana.

Professor Hanink’s book traces the idea of the metaphorical “debt” Western civilization owes to Greece for pioneering, and ultimately influencing, essential aspects of culture – everything from politics to fine art.

The Brown Daily Herald recently featured an article about the upcoming farewell show of Dolapo Akinkugbe (aka DAP), a musical sensation and current Classics concentrator.

Kathleen Larkin, a senior Classics concentrator, has accepted an offer for next year with Teach for America.

Classics concentrator Yvette Schein ('16), a co-editor of this year's forthcoming issue of the Brown Classical Journal, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Study/Research award to conduct research next year in Norway.

The Brown Classical Journal invites all undergraduate students to submit their personal works relevant to the culture, history, mythology, and languages of the ancient world. These works can be based in Greco-Roman tradition as well as the traditions of any other Ancient society, East or West.

Submissions may include essays, research papers, original translations, poetry, photographs, artwork, and other creative pieces.