Professor Paul Kosmin has been awarded the 2020 Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies for his book, Time and its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Congratulations to our PhD recipients! They will be featured in the Commencement issue of Nota Bene (coming soon!) Below are our graduates and the titles of their dissertations.
Massimo Cè, Classical Philology, “From mēnis to ira: Ancient Translators of Homer”
Eliza Gettel, Ancient History, “Between Federation and Empire: The koina of the imperial Greek mainland, 1st to 3rd century CE”
David Hansen, Modern Greek, “Visions of Statesmanship: A Statesman's Imagination and Autonomy”...
Senior concentrator Alejandro Quintana is one of three winners of this year’s Captain Jonathan Fay Prize! The Fay Prize honors the most outstanding and imaginative undergraduate theses, selected from among the winners of the Hoopes Prize. His thesis is entitled "Local Migration in the Arsinoite Nome of Egypt...
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning has announced the receipients of their Fall 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!
The text, translation and commentary on the agricultural fragments of Gargilius Martialis by James Zainaldin, G-6 in Classical Philosophy, has just been published in the Cambridge “orange” series, complete with 16 color plates: ...
Professor Jeremy Rau has been awarded an ACLS Fellowship! He will work on his project, "Linguistic Descent, Diversification, and Convergence. The History of the Ancient Greek Dialects, ca. 2000-600 BCE." Congratulations, Professor Rau!
There is a new issue for of Persephone: The Harvard Undergraduate Classics Journal for 2019–20! Thank you to Editor-in-Chief Serena Shah ('21) and Editorial Board members Hayden Davis ('21), Zelin Liu ('22), Fiona McFerrin-Clancy ('23), Abigail Miller ('22), Esther Um ('21) for their hard work!
The text, translation and commentary on the agricultural fragments of Gargilius Martialis by James Zainaldin, G-6 in Classical Philosophy, has just been published in the Cambridge “orange” series, complete with 16 color plates: ...