The Department of Classical Languages is happy to announce the courses to be offered in the Advent semester of 2012. Use it to help plan your Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies courses!
]]>8 Feb 2012 6:00 pm
Gailor Room 110
Professor David Wharton of UNC-Greensboro will be in Sewanee to speak Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 6:00 p.m. Come by Gailor room 110 to hear his lecture titled, "The Colors of Your Mind: Universal Color Categories in Latin and Why Pliny the Elder Can't Say 'Orange'."
]]>Professor McCarter has two articles forthcoming in Classical Journal and Transactions of the American Philological Association.
]]>School of Theology Professor Paul Holloway, who will be teaching New Testament Greek for the department this spring, has a new article out in the journal "Early Christianity."
]]>Professor McDonough has had two scholarly articles published recently.
]]>Professor Chris McDonough published an essay in the September/October issue of Humanities magazine, the periodical of the National Endowment of the Humanities, entitled "Property of Tennessee Williams."
]]>Since 2009 Stephanie McCarter has been the newsletter editor for the Classical Association of the MIddle West and South, the second largest Classics association in North America.
]]>Two majors in Classical Languages have been studying in Rome recently.
]]>7 Mar 2011 4:30 pm
Gailor Auditorium
British historian Matthew Symonds, a specialist on matters of Roman military archaeology, will speak on “Roman Britain: Imperial Paradise or Failed State?” Symonds taught for British Studies At Oxford for the first time in 2010, when students enjoyed a fabulous walk along Hadrian’s Wall with him on a blustery day last July.
]]>18 Nov 2010 7:30 pm
Gailor Auditorium
Renowned Classics scholar and Professor of Classics Emeritus at the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh Timothy Barnes will present The Debate about the Fall of Rome: Is an End in Sight? A reception at McGriff Alumni House will precede the lecture at 5:30 p.m.
]]>Professor Christopher McDonough will give a talk at the Film & History Conference, in Milwaukee, WI, on November 16, 2010. The title of the talk is "'Sobbin’ Fit to be Tied': Apprehending the Sabine Women."
]]>A chapter by Professor Christopher McDonough entitled "Ovid and Roman Religion" has appeared in the newly-released Approaches to Teaching Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition, edited by Barbara W. Boyd and Cora Fox (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2010. ISBN:9781603290630)
]]>On November 6, 2010 Stephanie McCarter will speak at the luncheon meeting of the Tennessee Classical Association to be held during the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association's conference in Franklin, TN. Her talk is entitled, "Memmius, Lend Me Your Ears: The Didactic Challenges of Lucretius' Strange Poem."
]]>16 Sep 2010 4:30 pm
Gailor Auditorium
The lecture entitled “Between Christian and Muslim, Captive and Freedman: the Literary Stratagems of Joannes Latinus, an African-born Educator Navigating an Age of Mass Enslavement (1570-1572)” is sponsored by the Spanish, Classical Languages, Religion, and International & Global Studies Departments.
]]>15 Sep 2010 6:30 pm
Home of Profs. Holmes and McCarter
Eta Sigma Phi members are invited to dinner and a meeting to discuss this year's events and to elect officers for the year. We will meet at 6:30 at the house of Profs. Holmes and McCarter.
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