The TLL makes the front page of the New York Times! Those with a Harvard login can access the article through the...

Call for Papers: "Class before Capitalism?: Social Structure and the Ancient World"

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Keynote speaker: Johanna Hanink (Brown University)

The graduate students at Harvard University’s department of the Classics invite abstract submissions for the upcoming graduate student conference, "Class before Capitalism?: Social Structure and the Ancient World."

Socio-economic status and the intergenerational structures which maintain it have...

The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning has announced the receipients of their Spring 2019 teaching awards. The Harvard Certificate of Distinction in Teaching is awarded to outstanding Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants, and the Harvard Certificate of Teaching Excellence goes to outstanding Lecturers, College Fellows, and Preceptors. Below are the recipients from Classics. Congratulations to all!

Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models, edited by Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke, and Naomi Weiss, has just been published by Brill. Covering a wide variety of media, from Sappho’s songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy, this exciting volume presents new theoretical approaches to the question of genre—both what it means and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry...

Naomi Weiss has received the distinct honor of being named the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities by Claudine Gay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.