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Rita Dove Brings Adaptation of Oedipus to OSU
Featured in the "News & Events" section of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Tom Hawkins, associate professor of classics, was looking for a modern interpretation of Sophocles’ “Oedipus…

Latin Student Wins Study Abroad Scholarship
Faith Rush, a student in classics graduate student Colleen Kron’s Latin 1103 course, has won a Keith and Linda Monda International Experience Scholarship. The scholarship will allow Faith to…

Classics Undergraduate Wins Research Scholarship
The news has just come in from Lindsey Chamberlain, Assistant Dean and Director of the ASC Honors Program, that our own Andy Hosler has won an Undergraduate Research Scholarship for Spring 2018.…

More Squeezes: the Avery-McDonald Collection
This May, the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies received the gift of a considerable collection of squeezes of Greek inscriptions. The collection came to us thanks to…

Video Game Executive and Classics Alumnus to Speak at Coffee Hour
Online Gaming and Ancient Studies Intersect
Video game development executive Jack Emmert, an alumnus of the OSU graduate program in Classics (Greek & Latin), will speak to the…

Anthony Kaldellis Appointed Classics Chair
Anthony Kaldellis has been appointed to serve as chair of the department of Classics, beginning on July 1, 2017. Kaldellis earned his PhD in history at the University of Michigan in 2001 and…

Speaking the Same Language: A Modern Greek Travel Award Donor and Recipient Talk Modern Greek
Featured in ASCENT, News from the College of Arts and Sciences, Spring 2017
Speaking the Same Language
Litsa Kozyris (BS, elementary education, 1985; MA, history, 1994) is…
Frank Coulson Elected to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine
Frank Coulson, professor of Classics and the Director of Palaeography for the OSU Epigraphy Center, has been elected a member of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine, which is an…
The Hype for Homer Project
"Hype For Homer" is a project that translates the poetry of Homer and other ancient Greeks into performance pieces for new general-audiences through the use of contemporary music and idiom. As of…