What's Happening in CU Classics

Travelers and Immigrants in Greek Mythology presented by Professor Lauri Reitzammer Wednesday, October 11th 7:00 PM in HUMN 250 Greek Mythology is filled with travelers, wanderers, immigrants, exiles, and refugees. This lecture discusses some famous travelers and immigrants from Greek mythology with an emphasis on the representation of foreigners and...

Charles Partridge Adams, American (1858 – 1942), Sunrise on the Mountains at the Head of Moraine Park, Near Estes Park, Colorado , c. 1920, oil paint on canvas, 48 x 68 ¼ x 3 inches framed. Gift of Philip, Albert, and Charles P. Adams Jr., sons of the late Charles...

In 2014, the University of Colorado Boulder joined in a collaborative partnership , called Partnerships in Faculty Diversity, with the University of California and the University of Michigan. The program offers postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at CU Boulder in all academic fields, coupled with faculty mentoring, professional development and academic networking...

The University of Colorado Department of Classics and the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee with the Colorado Classics Association and the Colorado Junior Classical League present: Colorado Classics Day on Saturday, 30th September, 2017 See the full Colorado Classics Day 2017 Schedule !

Talk by Greta Hawes Tracking Heracles through Pausanias: l ocal myth and panhellenic knowledge Monday, September 25 5:00 PM HUMN 250 Heracles is everywhere in Pausanias’ Description of Greece. He was the ‘panhellenic hero par excellence’, and innumerable local communities connected landmarks in their territories to his mythic adventures. Precisely...

On September 21 at 3:30pm in Old Main Chapel, professors of Art and Art History, Classics, Geography and Linguistics will give public lectures on their areas of expertise. From left to right, America, Palmer, Serreze, and Newlands Three members of the University of Colorado Boulder faculty have been named 2017...

CU Classics professor, Tyler Lansford, is transforming the death of Julius Caesar into new life for Roman rhetoric.

The Latin Summer Enrichment Program is a week-long day camp that introduces elementary and middle school students to the language and culture of ancient Rome. Rising 5th through 8th graders will communicate in Latin and engage in exciting activities, from performing plays to competing in a mini-Olympics, on the campus of CU Boulder. June 18-22, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

The winner of this year’s Kayden Book Award is Andy Cain, for his book, The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century (Oxford UP, 2016). The book revisits one of the foundational texts on fourth-century monasticism in Egypt. The committee cited the clarity of the...

King-Hill Fellow in the Teaching of Latin: The King-Hill award was established o commemorate the work of Joy King, professor emerita and former chair of our department, and Barbara Hill, who for may years served as Latin program coordinator. This award is given to support a student pursing an MA...