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Barbara Graziosi Guest on BBC Radio 4

September 14, 2018

Professor Barbara Graziosi recently discussed The Iliad with host Melvyn Bragg and other panelists on the iconic BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time. A recording of the broadcast, along with lists of related recordings and readings, is now available online.

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2018 opening exercises undergraduate prize winners

Grace Sommers Awarded George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize

September 10, 2018

This prize is awarded each year to juniors in recognition of exceptional academic achievement. Sommers is a physics major and is also pursuing certificates in applications of computing and Roman language and culture. She has a passion for tutoring and mentorship and worked as a physics tutor in the McGraw Center, was an undergraduate grader for Computer Science, and volunteered at Princeton’s climbing wall to help children with special needs.

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Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library

Daniela Mairhofer's "Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library" Published

August 28, 2018

The Bodleian Library in Oxford is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years’ War, mainly consist of major groups of codices from ecclesiastical houses in the Rhine-Main area, that is Würzburg, Mainz…

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Michael Flower and Dan-el Padilla Peralta Interviewed

August 13, 2018

Arum Park at the Society for Classical Studies conducted a brief interview with two faculty members, Michael Flower and Dan-el Padilla Peralta, about the pre-doctoral fellowship program.

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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

August 8, 2018

The Department of Classics is offering a one-year, fully funded pre-doctoral Fellowship. Members of groups that have been historically and are presently underrepresented in the academy (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities and individuals from low income backgrounds), and those who have made active contributions to enhancing access, diversity, and inclusion in the field of Classics are especially encouraged to apply.

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Whiteboard covered with words

An Update from the ‘Liquid Antiquity 2.0’ Workshop

August 6, 2018

This workshop engages scholars, curators, and artists in a response to the multimedia project “Liquid Antiquity,” commissioned by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, in order to extend further its explorations of alternative models of engaging classical antiquity and to enrich collaboration between the academic and art worlds in new forms of public engagement around the legacies of classicism. Here the participants share their final whiteboard.

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