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The Greek Parliament has agreed that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – its name for the country to the northwest of Greece since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991 – can now be called the Republic of Northern Macedonia.

Step back in time with Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland as he shares what it was like in a day in the life of an ancient Athenian. This new animated video was produced by Ted-Ed. Garland’s academic work has been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal […]

Preserving Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict, a three-day conference taking place October 18-20…

The Doric columns of Memorial Chapel. The Latin inscription on James C. ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Hall. The university motto. Students and faculty encounter these vestiges of the classical world on campus almost daily. As the university’s bicentennial approaches, a spring seminar course and current exhibition highlight these classical traditions alongside the history of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø. Deo ac Veritati: […]

In Europe, the transition from hunting and gathering to farming did not happen overnight. But in the Western Mediterranean, it happened much faster than in any other region of Europe — or the rest of the world for that matter.

Some say that the death of a great philosopher in ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab on October 27 was a miscarriage of justice and a stain on Athenian democracy. Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Vis Lab’s domed screen by actor H.C. Selkirk, didn’t require the response of law enforcement, but it did draw a crowd […]

One of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s best-known professors will reach more than 3,000 people from more than 100 countries in the university’s first public, open, online course, Greeks at War: Homer at Troy, beginning Monday. Robert Garland, Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the classics will teach the university-quality course on the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍøX platform.