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Mar 26, 2019

Classics Advising Night

Herter Hall 5th floor
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

 Advising Night will be on Tuesday, March 26 from 4-6pm (5th floor of Herter). In addition to meeting with your advisor (and enjoying pizza in the Lounge), you’ll also have the chance to learn more...
Apr 18, 2019

Senior Thesis Symposium

Herter 301
4:00 pm

Join us for refreshments and presentations by Senior Classics majors of their thesis research projects
Apr 26, 2019
Detail from Thomas Cole's Destruction of Empire

Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Roman Historiography

Amherst Room – Tenth Floor of Campus Center
3:30 pm

Roman historians imbued their works with the multi-generic characteristics and styles of tragedy, philosophical dialogues and treatises, and rhetorical speeches. These writers understood the value of borrowing from, alluding to, and interacting with these other genres in order to enhance the story-telling, philosophic, didactic, or rhetorical aspects of their histories.