Melissa Toomey, a PhD student in Classics, successfully defended her doctoral thesis, entitled The Poet and the Bee in Classical Literature, on October 15, 2021. The thesis was directed by […]

Giacomo Loi, PhD candidate in Classics, is the recipient of a prestigious doctoral fellowship at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (FMS) and will be spending the academic […]

Prof. Matthew Roller has been elected president of the Society for Classical Studies, the national professional association and learned society for Classicists. He will serve as President-elect from January 2022 […]

Prof. Karen ní Mheallaigh’s new book, The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy (Cambridge, 2020), has been short-listed for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award […]

What do replicas of ancient Greek sculptures and Minoan frescoes have in common with Baltimore culture? It turns out quite a bit, according to Emily Anderson, assistant professor of classics. She […]

Assistant professor Jennifer Stager first held the course the Antioch Recovery Project in spring 2020, focusing on mosaic tiles from the ancient city of Antioch. The course is featured in the March 2021 Arts […]

Congratulations to Gareth Schmeling, Fellow-by-Courtesy, JHU Classics, and Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, on the publication of the text and a translation of the Satyrica, traditionally attributed to Neronian Petronius […]