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Posted on February 14th, 2025 in Classes, Featured, Students, Upcoming by Elizabeth W. Thill

Want to enhance your growth as a citizen of the world? Ask timeless big-picture questions while learning marketable skills? Expand and unlearn what you thought you knew about Ancient Greece and Rome? Draw connections to the past in your field of study? Whether you are minoring in Classical Studies, or taking courses to expand your view …

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Posted on June 8th, 2025 in Announcements by Elizabeth W. Thill

Latest news in the SLA Classical Studies Program (CLAS): join us and learn what you love! Summer or Fall Looking Sadly Myth Free? In today’s crazy world, it might seem nice to look back to a simpler, less stressful time, like Ancient Greece…where you could at any minute be eaten by a chimera, stampeded by …

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Posted on June 7th, 2025 by Elizabeth W. Thill

Want to enhance your growth as a citizen of the world? Ask timeless big-picture questions while learning marketable skills? Expand and unlearn what you thought you knew about Ancient Greece and Rome? Draw connections to the past in your field of study? Whether you are minoring in Classical Studies, or taking courses to expand your view …

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Posted on May 23rd, 2025 in We Have Thoughts On That... by Elizabeth W. Thill

Over the last decade or so, novels that expand on stories and characters from Classical Mythology have become a hit genre. The Song of Achilles and Circe by Madeline Miller are probably the most famous example for adults (i.e. setting aside Percy Jackson), but there are approximately 1,000,000 of these novels set in the mythical …

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Posted on February 14th, 2025 in Classes, Students by Elizabeth W. Thill

Did you know that the character of Cupid can be traced to Classical Mythology? The chubby little guy with the magic arrows can be traced back to a god that the Greeks called “Eros” (the source of English words like “erotic”) and the Romans called “Cupid.” Before you think “adorable!” (an English word also sourced …

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Posted on February 14th, 2025 in Classes, Featured, Students, Upcoming by Elizabeth W. Thill

Want to enhance your growth as a citizen of the world? Ask timeless big-picture questions while learning marketable skills? Expand and unlearn what you thought you knew about Ancient Greece and Rome? Draw connections to the past in your field of study? Whether you are minoring in Classical Studies, or taking courses to expand your view …

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Posted on January 25th, 2025 in Events, Local by Elizabeth W. Thill

What do Ancient Roman gladiators, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Classical Studies professor Dr. Andy Findley all have in common? They all understand that, even for spectacle entertainment built on physicality, the show is only as good as the character mythology behind all the violence and vamping. In other words, slamming people to the ground …

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Posted on November 14th, 2024 in Real Housewives of Mt Olympus by Elizabeth W. Thill

Episode 81: In which Vulcan and Venus try to square Pompeii’s new ticketing restrictions with its new high-speed train, and get confused. This episode of Real Housewives of Mt. Olympus brought to you by the latest archaeological news on CNN.com – and by CLAS-C 419 Art and Archaeology of Pompeii. VULCAN, GOD OF METALWORKING AND …

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Posted on November 8th, 2024 in We Have Thoughts On That... by Elizabeth W. Thill

Fun fact about the past: I am old enough to remember hearing about this new company, which would send you rental DVDs in the mail, and you could keep them as long as you wanted without late fees; then, when you sent the DVD back, they sent you the next movie on your “queue.” Fast …

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Posted on October 30th, 2024 in Students by Elizabeth W. Thill

The Classical Studies Program is proud to launch our new Virtual Homecoming Series, where we profile a graduated student (not a current graduate student, we don’t have any of those) to learn where they are in the current world, and how their love of the ancient world got them there. Our thanks to our inaugural …

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Posted on October 29th, 2024 in Events, Local, Students by Elizabeth W. Thill

One of the great benefits of the Classical Studies Program moving under the umbrella of the History Department is that, in good Roman style, we can see what of their stuff we like and totally co-opt it (if it’s a good enough strategy for Ovid and his Metamorphoses, it’s good enough for us). One thing …

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