Hamilton College Classics Department

04/20/2023

Fantastic blog post by our own Shelley Haley (Professor Emerita!) on her work with the Netflix docuseries, "Queen Cleopatra."

Uncovering Cleopatra, Connecting Rome & India, Chaco Canyon Timber, and More

05/11/2022

Delayed post: congratulations to our students on their excellent posters and presentations at the recent Parilia conference!

Six Hamilton students recently shared their work at Parilia, an undergraduate classics conference in honor of the founding of Rome, traditionally dated to April 21, 753 BCE.

05/11/2022

Congratulations to our very own Professor Koenig on receiving the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award!

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members by Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen during the May 3 faculty meeting. The teaching awards are based on student nominations, excerpts of which appear below.

02/08/2022

Congratulations, Jacob and Nyaari! Jacob is a Classics major and a current senior.

Jacob Hane ’22 and Nyaari Kothiya ’23 are among 17 undergraduates from across the U.S. selected to serve on the National Humanities Center’s inaugural National Humanities Leadership Council. Nominated by faculty, these students will receive mentoring from

03/09/2021

The Villa Romana del Casale is a large and elaborate Roman villa or palace located about 3 km from the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily.

www.ancient-origins.net

02/28/2021

Some amazing pictures of the recent discovery of a chariot at Pompeii.

02/09/2021

This online course on "Rupturing Tradition: Ancient Past, Contemporary Praxis" looks amazing!
https://rupturingtradition.org/?fbclid=IwAR1IL4KoNsE2Da7aqInubd-e7cImH0TqQs9QPhgAecfdoUxzZgT3q3-K93M

“The goal of the ‘Old Classical Humanities’ was to create a citizen suited for an activist world power.”— W.R. Connor, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton, Emeritus Rupturing Tradition is an online graduate seminar on Classics and Activism Watch the trailer to learn more...

02/02/2021

So proud to know Dan-el!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html?fbclid=IwAR1y7sPufCnD1MZ8xD9HcoxCRNsjF11CSFzXcbf5v2WjXLKqCTCQ-wh5L4A

Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.

08/11/2020

https://twitter.com/janellemonae/status/1292918556078686208?s=21

I live this reimagining of Venus. I see no need for the ”Black” in the caption.

““The Birth of Black Venus” 📷: ”