After selling out its initial print run, Images for Classicists is available again from Harvard University Press for $20. The volume, edited by Kathleen M. Coleman, explores ways in which consideration of artworks and material objects can challenge and enrich text-based approaches to Classical Antiquity. This...

The Harvard Gazette recently reported on an exhibit in Palermo, Sicily, honoring Mason Hammond (1903–2002), Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Emeritus. The exhibit highlighted Professor Hammond's work in Italy in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Office during WWII. The curator, Attilio...

Katherine D. van Schaik (G7) is featured in a Crimson article discussing MD-PhD students at Harvard. van Schaik, scheduled to receive her MD from the Medical School and PhD in Classics this spring, is a rare example of a student pairing a medical course of study with a humanities field. Read more about van Schaik's experience in the Crimson: In Both Spheres: M.D.-Ph.D. Students at Harvard...