Recent News
Adriana Vazquez, a fourth year graduate student, has won the 2015 Lambda Classical Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award for a paper entitled 'The Girl from Lesbos: A Metapoetic Reading of Anacreon 358 PMG,' delivered at the 2014 meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest held in Vancouver BC this past March. This award is 'designed to encourage and reward scholarship by pre-PhD scholars on issues related to the LCC's mission.' The award last year went to UW graduate student Mira Green, who recently completely her PhD in History.
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We are delighted to report that Emeritissimus Professor Larry Bliquez's much-anticipated Tools of Asclepius is now available from Brill. You may read more about this splendid achievement by clicking here!
We thought you'd all enjoy reading this fascinating account from alumna Bobbie Sahr about her time here at the UW and her experiences with Department of Classics and beyond:
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Bobbie Sahr (née Smith) graduated from the UW in 1960 with a BA in Education (fulfilled at that time with Latin courses), with minors in French and History. Bobbie, who has kept many of her Latin texts throughout the years (and admits to writing translations in them, as we all have!), recalls her time here fondly:
“The Classics Department was delightful. I had Dr. Grummel for the majority of my classes and thought... Read more
Readers of modern Greek familiar with Professor MacKay's article 'New Light on Negropont' will be interested to learn that that article has now been translated into modern Greek by a group running a blog in large part about the History of Euboea and Chalkis. As Professor MacKay notes of his article, "it dusts away a great deal of the anti-historical chauvinism that has hitherto disfigured most writing about mediaeval and Ottoman Negropont."
The article (in modern Greek) may be read here. The original (in English) may be... Read more
Professor Ruby Blondell to deliver lecture on Helen in the Performing Arts Lecture Series in October
On Tuesday, October 21 at 7:30 PM in the Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre, our own Ruby Blondell will be delivering a lecture entitled "'Advertised for 2700 Years and Now You Get Her!' - Helen of Troy on the Silver Screen" as part of the Performing Arts Lecture Series. For information on this lecture and to obtain tickets ($10, free for UW students), and on the series in general, please click here.
Professor Blondell describes the lecture thus: "In an era that believes beauty is in the... Read more
In this space we highlight current news reports that feature Classics in one way or another.
Vladimir Putin and Hercules. You must read this...click here. (10/15/14)
Our own Professor Clauss consulted on...Big Foot. Click here if you don't believe us.
Augustus' stables in Rome to be reburied...for lack of funding. Click... Read more
In 2008 Lauren Du Graf earned her BA in Comparative Literature at the UW, though she also took many classes here in the Department of Classics, with a minor in Latin, and indeed was one of our more accomplished students. The following fall Lauren entered the graduate program in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Not surprisingly, Lauren's academic success has continued in graduate school. Currently at work on her dissertation on 'Little Magazines and Literary Salons: The Transatlantic Modernism of Charles Henri Ford', Lauren was the... Read more
It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of Karl Griggs on July 14, 2014. Karl had just completed his first year in our graduate program, having come to us last fall from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he completed a BA with highest honors in Anthropology and Classics. In the all too brief time Karl was with us, he dazzled faculty and fellow students alike with his prodigious language skills and intellect. Karl loved traveling, and had acquired a reputation as a warm host and a devotee of Latin scrabble. He clearly had a very bright future ahead of him, and he... Read more
Emeritus Professor Pierre MacKay recently traveled to St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he delivered a paper entitled 'The Euripus Channel at Negropont during the Middle Ages' at the Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 16-18, 2014). Professor MacKay's paper may be read online here.