The Department of Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University

We are happy to announce the official restoration of "Department" status to Classics at Ohio Wesleyan after nearly half a century!

We are also delighted to spend the next few weeks celebrating the achievements of our senior Classics majors! Congratulations to Erin Fannin; Sarah Foster; Troy Jones; Matthew Pheneger; Meredith Dunn; and Karis Lowrie!

Congratulations to Erin Fannin and Karis Lowrie on this article about their Classics Herbst trip to Europe!

https://www.owu.edu/news-media/details/my-whole-world-became-so-much-larger/

‘My Whole World Became So Much Larger’

The Classics Department is very proud of our majors Erin Fannin and Karis Lowrie for their excellent presentation on their trip to Italy! Nicely done!

The Classics Department is very proud of our alumna Emma Hilliard, who has co-authored the Oxford online bibliography for Seneca's Oedipus! Congratulations Emma!

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0285.xml?rskey=1dMBMu&result=1&q=seneca+oedipus

Seneca’s Oedipus - Classics - Oxford Bibliographies - obo Seneca’s Oedipus, like all his plays, has in the past fifty years moved from being marginalized and rejected to being studied seriously in its own right as a poetic and dramatic product. This is reflected in the appearance in recent decades of two major commentaries and a number of fresh translation...

Our own Dr. Fratantuono has published two more books in the past week! On the left is "Lucullus: The Life and Campaigns of a Roman Conqueror" and on the right is his commentary "Tacitus: Annals XVI." Congratulations, Dr. Fratantuono. We can't wait to see what's next! 📚

Classics Club is back Wednesday at 7 pm in Merrick! See you there!

The Classics Department is happy to announce that we've opened the order form for our 2017 sweatshirts! This order is open to all students, alumni, professors, family, and friends.
The bust on the front is of Chrysippus and the quote on the back is from Juvenal's second satire. It roughly translates to "they are unlearned persons, though you may find their houses crammed with plaster casts of Chrysippus; for their greatest hero is the man who has brought a likeness of Aristotle or Pittacus, or bids his shelves preserve an original portrait of Cleanthes." (Though if you don't like the translation when someone asks what it means, you can tell them whatever you want because they likely wouldn't be able to correct you.)
If you have any concerns about how we can get it to you, just let us know! https://www.customink.com/g/eqn0-00b4-fcgy

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The Department of Classics is happy to acknowledge our senior majors of 2017! Congratulations to Ceciley Bigler; Stephanie Rozsa; Lauren Gagne; Scott Payne; and Amanda Sisler!

A sobering reminder of how hard life could be!

https://www.thelocal.it/20160527/groundbreaking-study-reveals-brutal-realities-of-life-in-ancient-rome

Why the average ancient Roman worker was dead by 30 A groundbreaking study of 2,000 ancient Roman skeletons has shown how many of the ancient city's inhabitants were riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and were generally dead before 30.

The OWU Classics Department now has an official Instagram page! Follow ... and thanks to Sarah Foster for setting this up for the department!

Mark your calendars! Friday, 2 March, 4pm = Classics Lecture by Professor Caitlin Gillespie of Columbia University, who will be speaking on Boudica, Britain's warrior queen!

We are delighted that Classics majors Erin Fannin and Karis Lowrie will be heading to Rome and Naples/Pompeii this summer to visit important historical and archaeological sites!

Congratulations to our beloved Dr. Fratantuono on the publication of his newest book "Tacitus: Annals XVI"! A commentary covering Tacitus' writings on famous Romans such as Nero and Petronius, figures also covered in Dr. Fratantuono's lecture course Roman Empire. We can't wait to see what else he has in store!
https://www.owu.edu/news-media/details/ohio-wesleyan-classics-professor-releases-new-book/

Ohio Wesleyan Classics Professor Releases New Book | Ohio Wesleyan University Welcome to Ohio Wesleyan University!

With thanks to our colleague and friend Naomi Kaloudis!

http://classics.artsci.wustl.edu/why-classics-0

Why Classics? | Department of Classics

Hello all! Tonight classics club will be meeting at 6 pm instead of 7, see you there!

We are so proud of our Classics major honors alumna Elizabeth Simmons '14, who has donned her white coat on her way to becoming a medical doctor! Congratulations, Liz!

We are very happy to announce that Classics Club will be starting up again this Wednesday on the second floor of Merrick Hall at 7pm. We'd love to see you there!

Peer tutoring in Greek and Latin will continue this year! Happy that Classics Major Sarah Foster will be our Classics tutor for 2016-2017!

Mark your calendars for the first Classics lecture of the new academic year! Professor Emily Austin of the University of Chicago will be speaking on Thursday, 6 October at 4.00pm on Homer!

https://classics.uchicago.edu/faculty/austin

Emily Austin | Department of Classics I write on emotions in Homer, focusing on unique features of the language of the poems and exploring how they shape the narrative. A related interest is the poems’ presentation of their characters, particularly as these characters relate to one another. I am working on a book, tentatively titled Gri...

The Classics Department is very proud of alumna EMMA C. HILLIARD, who just finished her thesis "A specter is haunting epic: a close reading of the apparition topos in Lucan's Bellum Civile" for her master's degree at the University of British Columbia. Congratulations, Emma!

Ohio Wesleyan Classics is so proud of Sarah Foster and McKenna Brewer as they follow in Roman footsteps in Britannia, even as other OWU Classics types wander Roman Pannonia in modern Hungary! A busy summer in Europe for OWU Classics!

Ohio Wesleyan Classics is deeply indebted to our alumnus David Watts, Classics Major, Class of 1970. David was graduated the same year Classics Professor Roland Boecklin retired. That year, Professor Boecklin gave David many, many volumes of his personal Classics library. This summer, David has decided to present the collection back to OWU Classics, as the core of our new department library. We are thankful to David, and happy to honor the memory of Professor Boecklin!

Latin in Iceland

Ohio Wesleyan Classics is proud to submit the names of our graduated members of Eta Sigma Phi to the national office for inclusion in a future newsletter! Congratulations to Shannon; McKenna; Rob; Jake; Selena; Ashley; Clarissa; Rachael; and Maddy!

Ohio Wesleyan Classics is proud to recognize Classics major Selena Ross for successfully completing her thesis on weaving and spinning in ancient Rome and being graduated with department honors! On to graduate school!

Ohio Wesleyan Classics is happy to congratulate Classics major Rachael Nicholas and Classics minor Sarah Lucas for the honor of joining Phi Beta Kappa!

An old year ends, a new year looms! We are looking forward to the leadership of Sarah Foster and Nicole Rozsa on our Classics Student Board for 2016-2017! And to our largest Elementary Greek pre-enrollment in anyone's memory!

Ohio Wesleyan Classics wishes everyone a happy and safe summer! We are especially excited for our packed summer travel schedule! Classics majors McKenna Brewer and Sarah Foster will be investigating Roman Britain, just in time for our Fall, 2016 Caesar seminar!