# News [### Gregory Nagy Honored as 2026 “Great Immigrant, Great American” by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation ](https://carnegie.org/great-immigrants/gregory-nagy/) July 09, 2026 Photography by Antonia Nagy. Published June 2026. ![Gregory Nagy](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-07/GN%20Thumbnail_0.png?itok=IWCf386U) [### Now available: Commencement 2026 issue of our newsletter, Nota Bene! ](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/2026-06/Commencement%202026.pdf) June 17, 2026 ![Boylston Hall window with rhododenrons Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Boylston%20window.jpg?h=f9d8d3de&itok=RSXQUs9j) [### Kiesse Nanor to Give Latin Salutatory Address at 2026 Commencement Ceremony ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/05/lessons-from-ancient-modern-quantum-worlds/) May 28, 2026 ![Kiesse Nanor](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Classics%20Website%20News%20Headline%20Template%20%281%29_0.png?itok=3X0uz-2Z) [### Three Classics Seniors Awarded Hoopes Prize! ](/news/2026/05/three-classics-seniors-awarded-hoopes-prize) May 04, 2026 Congratulations to our Hoopes Prize winners in Classics & all the winners across the College! Read on to learn more about our winners, their theses, and the Hoopes Prize! Emma Finn - “Quantifying the Past: Empirical Tropes in Greek Historiography”... ![Emma Finn, Olivia Ma, and Elena Lu](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Classics%20Website%20News%20Headline%20Template%20%281%29.png?h=bfcb432e&itok=JUHxPawM) [### Rachel Love awarded the 2026–27 Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize! ](/news/2026/04/rachel-love-awarded-2026-27-andrew-heiskell-rome-prize) April 28, 2026 Associate Professor of Classics Rachel Love has been awarded the 2026–27 Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize! As a recipient of this prestigious prize, she will spend next academic year at the American Academy in Rome. While in Rome, Professor Love will be working... ![Rachel Love](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Classics%20Website%20News%20Headline%20Template%20%281%29_1.png?itok=UB2b52lV) [### Check out Margaret Andrews' new book: The Subura of Rome ](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/subura-of-rome/4FA5D450BC6B2BF5739242B1FBFA1052#fndtn-information) April 24, 2026 Published by Cambridge University Press. The ancient neighborhood of the Subura in Rome was held together by the shape of its terrain and the urban thoroughfares that connected the city's center and periphery. In this study, Margaret Andrews traces the... ![Margaret Andrews' Book Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Classics%20Website%20News%20Headline%20Template.png?h=3c7499fd&itok=uulXvMtF) [### New Podcast: Ancient Greece Today ](https://chs.harvard.edu/announcing-season-1-of-chs-podcast-ancient-greece-today/) April 21, 2026 ![Ancient Greece Today logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Ancient%20Greece%20Today%20medium.png?h=1964665a&itok=oisp919k) [### Naomi Weiss to be next Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies ](https://chs.harvard.edu/announcing-next-director-of-the-center-for-hellenic-studies/) April 16, 2026 ![Woman standing on steps and smiling](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-12/img_7342.jpg?h=0e9a965f&itok=MKMhDm9j) [### Now available: Fall/Winter 2025–26 issue of our newsletter, Nota Bene! ](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/2026-01/Fall-Winter%202025-26.pdf) January 16, 2026 ![Boylston in winter Jon Chase/Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/021314_snow_154.jpg?h=5792cbc4&itok=ZylAZY7T) [### Harvard at the 2026 AIA/SCS! ](/news/2026/01/harvard-2026-aiascs) January 06, 2026 The 2026 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting is being held in San Francisco, CA, January 7–10. If you are heading to San Francisco or attending online, check out the panels featuring scholars currently affiliated with Harvard! List of this year's Harvard-affiliated... ![AIA and SCS logos](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-09/aia_scs_logos_405x203.jpg?itok=-dWfkprS) [### Susannah Wright (Classics PhD '24) & Scott McGill discuss their new translation of the Aeneid ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/was-aeneid-critiquing-or-glorifying-empire/) October 22, 2025 ![Wright & McGill](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-10/aeneid_1.png?itok=muA-nHoC) [### Paul Kosmin wins American Historical Association book prize! ](https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/american-historical-association-announces-2025-prize-winners/) October 20, 2025 ![Ancient Shore cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/Ancient%20Shore%20thumbnail.png?itok=OvKSHYs3) [### Now available: Commencement 2025 issue of our newsletter, Nota Bene! ](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/2025-07/Commencement%202025.pdf) July 01, 2025 ![Boylston Hall](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/022322_features_RL_2307_enhanced.png?h=14d05025&itok=AVZjIjJa) [### Classics Offerings at Harvard Summer School ](/news/2025/04/classics-offerings-harvard-summer-school) April 23, 2025 This summer, there are many exciting course offerings at the Harvard Summer School taught by instructors affiliated with Classics! Browse offerings in Greek, Latin, Roman history, and linguistics on the Harvard Summer School website . (Download the flier... ![Harvard Summer School logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/HSS.png?itok=HOGh5EA-) [### Fall 2024 issue of undergraduate journal Persephone available! ](https://persephone.hsites.harvard.edu/current-issue) February 09, 2025 ![Persephone journal cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-02/Persephone%20vol.%209%20Fall%202024_0.png?itok=zZWm5m4r) [### Now available: Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue of our newsletter, Nota Bene! ](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/2025-01/Nota%20Bene%20Fall%3AWinter%202024%E2%80%932025_1.pdf) January 09, 2025 ![Boylston Hall in the snow](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Screenshot%202025-01-09%20at%201.49.27%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=9e5021c7&itok=T-4pGL1M) [### Harvard at the 2025 AIA/SCS! ](/news/2025/01/harvard-2025-aiascs) January 02, 2025 The 2025 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting is being held in Philadelphia, January 2–5. If you are heading to Philadelphia or attending online, check out the panels featuring scholars currently affiliated with Harvard! List of this year's Harvard-affiliated... ![AIA and SCS logos](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-09/aia_scs_logos_405x203.jpg?itok=-dWfkprS) [### Richard Thomas interviewed by Harvard Gazette about Bob Dylan ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/12/voice-of-a-generation-dylans-is-much-more-than-that/) December 20, 2024 ![Richard Thomas](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-02/Thomas%20Richard%20photo%202.2025.jpeg?h=32548a21&itok=T6Zt5heW) [### Naomi Weiss receives 2024 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit ](/news/2024/12/naomi-weiss-receives-2024-charles-j-goodwin-award-merit) December 11, 2024 Naomi Weiss, Department Chair and Professor of the Classics, has received a 2024 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for her outstanding recent monograph, Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama (Oakland: University of California Press... ![Woman standing on steps and smiling](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-12/img_7342.jpg?h=0e9a965f&itok=MKMhDm9j) [### Olivia Glunz and Tejas Vadali elected to Phi Beta Kappa ](/news/2024/12/olivia-glunz-and-tejas-vadali-elected-phi-beta-kappa) December 11, 2024 Olivia Glunz (joint concentrator in History and Classical Languages and Literatures) and Tejas Vadali (joint concentrator in Classical Civilizations and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) are among the "Senior 48" elected to Phi Beta Kappa... ![Phi Beta Kappa logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-12/pbk%20logo.jpg?itok=8DQoY1Eq) Show morerefresh