Classics

Meghan Strong The Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer a variety of remote courses and lectures including “How to Build a Pyramid: Analyzing the Great Pyramid Builders of Egypt” with Meghan Strong, adjunct assistant professor of classics at CWRU and research…

The Department of Classics will host a lecture by Amy R. Cohen, professor of classics and theater at Randolph College, Thursday, Sept. 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. In her lecture, titled “Masks and Reality in Ancient Athenian Drama,” Cohen will look at both historical and…

When the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of a Greek island in 1901, it was shrouded in mystery. As technology advanced, researchers applied new approaches to examine it. They've since uncovered the purpose of the device, finding it to be an ancient time-keeping…

Students interested in taking “Rome On Site: The Archaeology of the Eternal City,” a study abroad program based in Rome, Italy, are invited to attend an information session Friday, Nov. 30, at 1 p.m. in Mather House, Room 100. The course, which will be offered during Summer Session 1 (June 2019),…

On Friday, Oct. 13, more than 100 Cleveland-area high school students studying the Classics will come to University Circle to learn firsthand from scholars of the ancient world. The inaugural Classics Day—a collaboration between Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Cleveland Museum of…

Entering her 37th (and final) year at Case Western Reserve University, Jenifer Neils—an internationally renowned scholar of ancient Greek and Roman art—has won the 2017 Baker-Nord Center Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities. After the academic year, Neils, the Elsie B. Smith…