Monthly Muse
Colgate Classics Society's Monthly Newsletter
The Classics Abroad
Spotlighted Professor: Professor Geoffrey Benson
'Very, Very Old Latin' or Ancient Greek?
Classical Cartoon
Ancient Words of Wisdom
If you go to dinner without writing a will.
There are as many deaths waiting for you
As there are open windows above your head.
Therefore you should hope and fervently pray
That they only dump their sewage on you.
- Juvenal, On the City of Rome
Save the Date
Classics Open House Lunch
Friday, November 7th at 12pm
Lawrence Terrance
Zach Snyder's 300
Film Screening
Thursday, November 13th at 7pm
Persson 27
Spartans at War:
The Historians Debate
Thermopylae and The 300
Monday, November 17th at 4:30pm
Persson 27
Refugees in the Greek World
(Prof. Garland)
Tuesday, November 18th at 4:15pm
105 Lawrence
Myth and Popular Science
(Prof. Holm)
Tuesday, December 9th at 4:15pm
105 Lawrence
Classics Courses S'15
CLAS 221
The Epic Voice and its Echoes
Prof Benson
CLAS 224
The Age of Augustus
Prof. Benson
CLAS 232
Sexuality and Gender - Classical
Prof. R. Ammerman
CLAS 251/251E
Culture of Ancient Greek City
Prof. R. Ammerman (Extended Study)
GREK 121A
Elementary Greek I
Prof.Stull
GREK 121B
Elementary Greek I
Prof. Benson
CORE 151E
Legacies of Ancient World
Prof. Rood
CORE 151F
Legacies of Ancient World
Prof. Holm
CORE 151G
Legacies of Ancient World
Prof. Holm
The Classics Abroad
How would you like to walk the same paths as great thinkers such as Plato and Socrates? Or discuss the growth of democracy in the very city it was created? Perhaps you would prefer reenacting the poses of statues and sculptures from the abstract Cycladic Figures to the realisitic Hermes and the Infant Dionysus.
November 2014
Spotlighted Professor: Professor Geoffrey Benson
November 2014
Meet the Classics Department's newest member - Professor Geoffrey Benson! From a childhood interest in the classics to his doctorial research at the University of Chicago, Professor Benson took a few minutes to explain his love of the Classics as well as answer some of our buring questions, such as which classical figure he would dine with or what profession would he try if he wasn't teaching?
'Very, Very Old Latin' or Ancient GReek?
Professor Joshua T. Katz, Professor of Classics at Princeton University and a distinguished linguist, came to Colgate University to uncover a possible origin of the Latin word, Latium and Very, Very Old Latin. But wait, where does Ancient Greek fit into this discussion?
November 2014
