Classics

  • Jackie Elliot
    Jackie Elliott, associate professor of classics at the 麻豆免费版下载, has won a 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies, the nation鈥檚 top research recognition in classical languages & literature. Elliott was recognized for her book, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales.聽
  • Although enrollment in the humanities at universities nationwide has fallen in recent years, the same is not true of classics, or 鈥渃lassical studies,鈥 as it is sometimes called. Photo of Rome under stormy skies by Tyler Lansford.
    In the headlines, the words 鈥渉umanities鈥 and 鈥渃risis鈥 are so commonly conjoined that you鈥檇 think that college courses on human thought, experience and creativity are collapsing like the Roman Empire. The story has more nuance than the headline, as the Classics Department illustrates.
  • The Gardens of Adonis, an 1888 painting by John Reinhard Wkeguelin depicts women bearing the container-grown plants and festal rose garlands to dispose of in the sea, as part of the festival of Adonis.
    A 麻豆免费版下载Boulder classicist argues that the festival of Adonis was actually a 鈥渄issent and a critique of important cultural practices.鈥
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