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2018-2019 Schlam Lecturer Chosen
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer has accepted the invitation to be our Schlam speaker for 2018-2019. The University of Chicago professor is the author of Actors in the Audience, and has recently been doing…
Classics Graduate Student Wins Iles Award for the Study of Myth
Marcus Ziemann has won this year's Iles Award for the Study of Myth from the Center for the Study of Religion. The Award will fund Marcus' work on the connection between Assyrian literature and…
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 Rex” to…
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. This…
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 Professor…
Video Game Executive and Classics Alumnus to Speak at Coffee Hour
Online Gaming and Ancient Studies IntersectVideo game development executive Jack Emmert, an alumnus of the OSU graduate program in Classics (Greek & Latin), will speak to the OSU…
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 joined…
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 2017Speaking the Same Language Litsa Kozyris (BS, elementary education, 1985; MA, history, 1994) is passionate about…