Aeneid, the first ever single-volume commentary to be published on Book XII alone. It is available in paperback and hardcover through Cambridge University Press. Follow this...
Congratulations to Professor David Elmer on the release of his new book, The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad. The work is now available from J...
The wildly popular graduate workshop “Discovery of the Classical World” has been renamed and refocused as it enters its third year. Under the continuing supervision of faculty advisors Prof. Adrian Stähli and Prof. Paul Kosmin, and shepherded by graduate student coordinators Charles Bartlett ...
Congratulations to Classics Concentrator Elliot Wilson ('15) for being named one of the "15 Most Interesting Seniors of 2015" by The Harvard Crimson's Fifteen Minutes Magazine.
Our current Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor David Elmer, talks to the Crimson about the Department's new policy of digital-only thesis submission. Classics theses are due tomorrow (Thursday, March 12th) at noon.
We are pleased to announce that Lizzie Mitchell, a G-5 in our Classical Archaeology program, has been awarded a two-year Kress Visiting Fellowship. She will travel to the Centre for the Arts in Society at Leiden University in the Netherlands to write her dissertation, which will focus on cupids on Roman mosaics and sarcophagi. Warmest congratulations and bon voyage to Lizzie from all of us!
We are delighted to announce that our own Professor Emma Dench has won the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Graduate Student Council. Congratulations on this richly deserved distinction!
Professor Jan Ziolkowski has been awarded the Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse ((Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class) by the Austrian Vizekanzler and Bundesminister, Dr. Reinhold...
The Department has launched its new website with help from the Harvard Web Publishing team. It is still a bit of a work in progress as we prepare for the start of fall term. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you can't find something, have questions, or to send us feedback!
Dumbarton Oaks reports on the bust of Diana who has been rescued from the floor of the Medieval Studies Library in Widener, restored, and installed in the new Fellowship House, the institute's new residence building for its fellows. Follow her journey in their newsletter!
The Harvard Crimson talks to College graduates who studied the humanities about jobs and career choices: "The Humanities at Work." (Look for comments from Classics Concentrator Pankaj K. Agarwalla ’04!).
Aeneid, the first ever single-volume commentary to be published on Book XII alone. It is available in paperback and hardcover through Cambridge University Press. Follow this...
Congratulations to Professor David Elmer on the release of his new book, The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad. The work is now available from J...
Congratulations to Professors Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski, editors of the new publication 
Senior Classics Concentrator Will Dingee has been awarded a coveted 
