Classics

  • Jackie Elliot
    Classicist wins top honor for ‘daring, meticulous’ book
    Jackie Elliott, associate professor of classics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won a 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies, the nation’s top research recognition in classical languages & literature. Elliott was recognized for her book, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales. 
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  • Although enrollment in the humanities at universities nationwide has fallen in recent years, the same is not true of classics, or “classical studies,” as it is sometimes called. Photo of Rome under stormy skies by Tyler Lansford.
    Classics unfazed by the ‘crisis in humanities’
    In the headlines, the words “humanities” and “crisis” are so commonly conjoined that you’d think that college courses on human thought, experience and creativity are collapsing like the Roman Empire. The story has more nuance than the headline, as the Classics Department illustrates.
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  • The Gardens of Adonis, an 1888 painting by John Reinhard Wkeguelin depicts women bearing the container-grown plants and festal rose garlands to dispose of in the sea, as part of the festival of Adonis.
    Prof sees a ‘subversive critique’ in ancient Greece
    A CU Boulder classicist argues that the festival of Adonis was actually a “dissent and a critique of important cultural practices.”
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