Table of Contents

Meet our Undergraduate Scholarship Award Winners

From the Chair

Graduate Students Prepare for Commencement

Students and Faculty Enjoy Winter Retreat

UCB Classics Opens a "Washington Branch"

Colorado Classics on-Line

New Classics Courses Offered

Classics Department Reaches Out to Community and State

News from our Alumni

Friends of Classics at UCB

CU Classics Department Home Page

University of Colorado at Boulder Home Page

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Department of Classics
University of Colorado at Boulder
HUMN 340
Campus Box 248
Boulder, Colorado 80309

From the Chair
Peter E. Knox

his has been another year of accomplishment in the Department of Classics. At commencement thirteen graduating seniors will receive their degrees in the new Humanities Building at the first ceremony in the new facility. In addition, the Department will award ten MA's and one Ph.D. Faculty too have been gathering accolades. Noel Lenski is the recipient of the prestigious Boulder Faculty Assembly's Excellence in Teaching Award; Diane Conlin is traveling to Rome to conduct research for her project in Trajanic sculpture, with the assistance of a travel grant from the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities and a Junior Faculty Development Award.

Next fall we welcome back John Gibert, who has been spending the year as a Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. One of his colleagues at the Center was Peter Hunt, one of two new additions to the faculty of the Department. Peter's special field is ancient Greek history. In the fall semester he will teach Beginning Greek and Alexander and the Hellenistic World. Joining John and Peter in Washington was Elspeth Dusinberre, who was a Fellow at the Smithsonian and is the second of our new faculty members. Beth, who specializes in Greek art and archaeology, will start teaching for the Department in the spring semester of 2001. Now eleven members strong, the Department offers a comprehensive program in the language, literature, history and material culture of Greek and Roman antiquity and is widely recognized as a rising star in the constellation of classical studies.

Watch for the Department to be involved in a number of events designed to involve the community-especially our friends and alumni-in the vibrant world of classics. In the fall, Diane Conlin and Noel Lenski will mount an exhibition of priceless Roman coins, on loan from a generous benefactor, in conjunction with their new graduate course on Roman numismatics. Perhaps most exciting is the Department's involvement with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and their production of a new ten-play series entitled Tantalus. The work of the renowned playwright, John Barton, Tantalus is a modern retelling of myths surrounding the fall of Troy. Tantalus will be directed by Sir Peter Hall and is a joint production with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The series will debut in Denver, its only appearance in North America, before touring in England and on the continent.

Peter E. Knox, Chair