Classical Studies Program, University of Houston

Happy summer! Just checking to make sure that everyone knows about this Fall class. I think there are still a few spots open in Women in Antiquity as well. WCL, History, and Phronesis students, take heed!

CDH and Richard Armstrong on the Kenhinde Wiley exhibit at MFAH - there are still a few weeks left to see it!

SCS Diablog: Forever in Bloom: Kehinde Wiley’s Archaeology of Silence | Society for Classical Studies Richard Armstrong and Casey Dué May 8, 2024 After successful runs in Venice, Paris, and San Francisco, Kehinde Wiley’s Archaeology of Silence has been reinstalled in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, where Classics professors Casey Dué Hackney and Richard Armstrong explored its ensemble of painti...

How to Read Homer Some Ideas (and Tools) for the Iliad in Greek

Found in translation: UT Translation Symposium this weekend The Translation Symposium will run on April 19 and 20 at UT this weekend. The symposium is organized by the Classics Department and World Languages and Cultures. We spoke with visiting scholars Lawrence Venuti and Richard Armstrong about the evolution and need for literary translation. Participation...

Have you listened to Cassandra yet?

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Take Ancient Greek this summer!

Online Classical Greek The University of Colorado offers online Beginning Greek 1-2 as the first for-credit. CU Classical Greek CU Online Greek Online Ancient Greek

In this episode of "Humanity Matters Most," professors Richard Armstrong and Max Reinhardt discuss the challenges and impacts of translating Homer's epics. They explore notable translations like Emily Wilson’s gender-sensitive version of "The Odyssey" and Richard Whitaker's adaptation into Afrikaans, examining how these translations do more than change words—they shape how we see cultural identities.

Tune in to learn about the complexities involved in translating ancient texts into modern languages and how these translations bridge the gap between historical legacies and current cultural contexts.

Humanity Matters Most - Translating Humanity: Language, Culture and the Impact of Translation | RSS.com In this episode of "Humanity Matters Most," experts Richard Armstrong and Max Reinhardt discuss the challenges and impacts of translating Homer's epics. They explore notable translations like Emily Wilson’s gender-sensitive version of "The Odyssey" and Richard Whitaker's adaptation into Afrikaans,...

Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city Archaeologists unearth significant new paintings in the ancient Roman town buried by a volcano in AD79.

Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to ancient world, researchers say Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people

Many of these courses count towards the Classical Studies minor and WCL/Ancient Studies major - check them out!

Hey Coogs, looking for something transformative to take in the fall? We've got you!

Upcoming free event featuring Classical and ancient texts from around the world! April 1 at 11am - no joke and don't miss it!

First rehearsal and read thru of is all set and ready to go! Bring on the !

Classics professor Richard Armstrong will moderate this event on March 27.

Hope and Despair in Israel/Palestine - https://mailchi.mp/b827cdf43938/hope-and-despair-in-israelpalestine

Professor Richard Armstrong is quoted in this article about leap years and the Roman calendar.

On leap day 2024, Philly will make up for 1,440 minutes of lost time After four years and 2.3 billion miles over four laps around the sun, we get a lost day back.

Birth of Oshun | Catalogue | Harmonia Rosales Since the genesis of her career, Harmonia Rosales’s main artistic concern has focused on Black female empowerment in Western culture, depicting and honoring the African diaspora.

Black Classicists in Texas consists of three exhibitions, each located at a different cultural venue in central Austin: the Benson Latin American Collection on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the Downs-Jones Library at Huston-Tillotson University, and the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center.

The three exhibits are divided thematically, and each can be viewed on its own. For the best experience, we recommend taking a self-guided tour to experience all three venues, as well as other historical sites of Austin’s Black community. Can’t visit Austin? We have you covered. You can explore the exhibit materials online or even take a 3-D digital tour!

BCATX - Black Classicists in Texas Black Classicists in Texas is a free public exhibition celebrating African American teachers of Latin and Greek in Central Texas

Free on-line lecture tomorrow, 2/15! Rsvp at this link.

Helen of Troy in Hollywood Living Latin and Ancient Greek

Classical Summer School This five-week program is designed to provide participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary sources.

It’s a space odyssey!

A Spacecraft Named Odysseus Will Launch to the Moon: How to Watch (Gift Article) Intuitive Machines of Houston, the latest private company to attempt to carry NASA payloads to the lunar surface, will lift off early on Wednesday.

Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius' Eruption The trio used artificial intelligence to decode sections of the text, which appear to be a philosophical exploration of pleasure

Happy Holidays!

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Classical Studies students! Note that we accept many courses from other programs for our minor and the WCL/Ancient Studies major. Most anything dealing with the ancient world in some way. Here is a course offered this Spring that we could count:
Modernity Revisited
Course Number: HON 4391H
Instructor: Barnes
Instructional Mode: Face-to-Face
Class Number: 24007
Days and Times: TTh 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
All literature set in the past is, to a greater or lesser degree, really about the present. This was true in ancient Greece, where writers turned their myths and history into literature that addressed critical issues of their own time, and it remains true now. This course will investigate how a handful of twenty-first century writers from around the globe have turned to ancient Greek literature for narrative inspiration, and as a means by which to address issues, problems, and anxieties of our own time. What do these contemporary writers have to say about how we make use of the ancient past and about the world all around us, right now? And what is it about ancient Greek literature that has proven so irresistible to writers far removed from them in time and place? As we read, we’ll be searching for connections, differences, surprises, new perspectives—in short, looking for the meanings that connect us, now, to the world of the Greeks.

(Note that you will need to fill out a petition with our advisor for it to count towards our degrees.)

Upcoming free event on December 5!

POETRY & MUSIC Gilgamesh, an Ancient Voice — Archaeology Now Discover the world’s first story and learn about a hero who searched for the secret of immortality at a mini-marathon reading of Gilgamesh. Copies of the book will be available for sale for you to follow along as people from all walks of life in Houston participate in relating a story as relevant ...

UH, Check out this extremely fun Spring 2024 class!

History of Ancient Civilisations and Western Civ to 1450 can both count towards the Classical Studies minor and WCL/Ancient Studies major.

Check out our course selection for the Spring 2024 Term!https://uh.edu/class/history/_images/posters-spring-2024.pdf

Check out the YouTube channel Frank Holt's History where Dr. Holt, Professor of the UH Department of History, shares his passion for the ancient past:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw2zJqWqOIGmpYP2N-IelNg

In addition to Ancient History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies courses, you can also count a number of Phronesis courses towards the minor in Classical Studies (by petition). Check these out for spring 2024.

Several Jewish Studies courses count for the Classical Studies minor and WCL/Ancient Studies, including the Bible and Modern Pop Culture, offered in Spring.

Coogs, take a look at Jewish Studies-related courses for Spring 2024. Take something that matters next semester.