News from Classical Languages

Course Offerings for Advent 2012

2012-04-12T16:17:43Z

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!

Two articles forthcoming by Stephanie McCarter

2012-02-02T17:22:45Z

Professor McCarter has two articles forthcoming in Classical Journal and Transactions of the American Philological Association.

Holloway has new article out

2011-11-22T17:48:14Z

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."

Two new articles by Professor McDonough

2011-11-22T18:00:14Z

Professor McDonough has had two scholarly articles published recently.

Professor McDonough Has Essay Published

2011-10-18T14:36:35Z

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."

Professor McCarter edits CAMWS Newsletter

2011-09-23T14:02:50Z

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.

Students Studying In Rome

2011-06-21T19:54:08Z

Two majors in Classical Languages have been studying in Rome recently.

Professor McDonough Travels To Wisconsin To Lecture

2010-10-25T14:28:59Z

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."

Professor McDonough Contributes Chapter to New Book

2010-10-25T14:23:25Z

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)

Stephanie McCarter to speak to the Tennessee Classical Association

2010-09-28T18:46:49Z

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."

Chris McDonough to Publish Two Articles

2010-08-23T20:34:46Z

Christopher McDonough has had two articles recently accepted for publication. "Back in the Saddle Again: CIL XIV.3911" will appear in Mnemosyne, and "Of Camels, Crocodiles, and Human Sacrifice: the North Carolina MS of Solinus' De Situ Orbis Terrarum and the Reading of Classical Geography in the Renaissance" (co-authored with Paul Dover) will appear in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.

Stephanie McCarter named CAMWS newsletter editor

2010-08-23T20:35:27Z

In the Fall of '09, Stephanie McCarter took up a three year term as the editor of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South newsletter. The newsletter is published three times per year, in the Winter, Spring, and Fall. The editorship brings with it a position on CAMWS Executive Committee and Subcommittee on Publications. Her duties include soliciting articles and news of interest to the organization's readership, as well as attending the annual conference. Since taking up the position, she has overseen the transition from a paper to an online format, which has received much positive feedback. She is currently at work on her third issue.

Daniel Holmes Researches in Athens

2011-07-25T16:04:19Z

Professor Holmes spent a busy week in June in Athens at the National Archaeological Museum, the new and exciting Acropolis museum and the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis researching the iconography of the Eleusinian mysteries and other cults of Demeter and Persephone. This trip will prove valuable not only for his research but also for his Greek class in the Easter semester on Andocides’ On the Mysteries.

Students Inducted into Eta Sigma Phi

2011-07-25T16:04:56Z

This spring, 23 students were inducted into Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society. The event was held at the house of Dr. Holmes and Dr. McCarter and involved a variety of mysterious secret rites, followed by pasta, salad, and cake made by Dr. McCarter. For a full list of initiates, click "View More."