Haverford College Classics Department

02/07/2019

Haverford's Prof. Deborah Roberts and Penn colleague Prof. Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan discussing their work on myth and childhood in Eidolon!

Last spring we published a book, Childhood and the Classics, which describes how Greek and Roman myth and history came to be retold as stories for children. Whenever we tell friends, relatives…

01/21/2019

To mark the start of Black History Month, a Classicist reflects on the inspiration King drew from ancient Greek culture.

11/28/2018

Yet another reason to check out the fantastic new Middle Eastern galleries at the Penn Museum!

They bring ancient Mesopotamia into the here and now.

10/22/2018

A nice write-up about the Homerathon! Thanks again to everyone who read, listened, and participated!

Members of the Haverford community celebrated the publication of the first English-language translation of the Odyssey by a woman with a 10-hour-long public reading.

10/03/2018

The 2018 Homerathon is under way! Come by VCAM today to join in a collective marathon reading of Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s Odyssey. At 12:30pm, Prof. Wilson herself will join us to discuss her translation. Pizza will be served! The reading will extend into the early evening, so come by anytime today to listen, and to read!

09/29/2018

This year's Classic Marathon at Haverford College (the 13th annual!) is just over a week away! Come and listen to a few minutes or a few hours of Homer's Odyssey (in Emily Wilson's translation)--or join into the epic festivities by reading a passage!

When: Wednesday, Oct. 3 @ 9:30 am until ???
Where: VCAM Lounge at Haverford College https://www.haverford.edu/campus-map/240042

09/25/2018

This year's Classic Marathon at Haverford College (the 13th annual!) is just over a week away! Come and listen to a few minutes or a few hours of Homer's Odyssey--or join into the epic festivities by reading a passage!

When: Wednesday, Oct. 3
Where: VCAM Lounge at Haverford College
Who: all are welcome!
Starting at: 9:30 am
Ending at: ??? (early evening?)
Cost: free!

09/18/2018

Interested in hearing about the kind of research that goes on in the Haverford Classics Department? Come on over to Bryn Mawr this Friday afternoon for the weekly Classics Colloquium to hear Prof. Farmer share his work on the comic poet Theopompus' fragmentary parodies of Homer!
https://www.brynmawr.edu/events/classics-colloquium-matthew-farmer

09/13/2018

If you've been watching the Haverford sidewalks, you may have noticed a particular Latin quotation showing up all over campus! Elementary Latin students have been inscribing the famous words of Terence: "Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum p**o" - "I am a human: I believe that nothing human is foreign to me." Watch this space - and chalkable surfaces on campus - for more Latin from our newest Haverford Latinists this semester!