Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies at UC Berkeley

11/19/2024

Thank you, Princeton Classics, for hosting Prof. Oliensis and for inviting her to deliver the Prentice Lecture! We’re honored 🤗🤓📚

10/28/2024

Join Prof. Mario Telò in conversation with Judith Butler on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 12:00pm for the next Berkeley Book Chat (in collaboration with the Townsend Center for the Humanities)! Considering Butler's “tragic trilogy” — a set of interventions on Sophocles's Antigone, Euripides's Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides — Telò seeks to understand how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy and, ultimately, how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking. Details and registration 👇👇👇🤓📚📖

Considering Judith Butler's “tragic trilogy” — a set of interventions on Sophocles's Antigone, Euripides's Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides — Mario Telò seeks to understand how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy and, ultimately, how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking.

10/10/2024

Mark your calendars for what's sure to be a fascinating talk: "Rome Reborn: Ars Antiquaria Meets Ars Electronica" with Dr. Bernard Frischer (Indiana University). This hybrid event is sponsored by the Ancient Art Council and will take place on Saturday, October 19!

🔗Details and registration: https://www.ancientartcouncil.org/program/rome-reborn%3A-ars-antiquaria-meets-ars-electronica--

06/09/2024

Love these! 😍🏛🏺

04/26/2024

GREEK 101 students close out their semester of reading Homer's Iliad by examining ancient papyrus fragments inscribed with Homeric text! Students, with their fearless leader, Dr. Grace Erny, are shown here holding a replica of Book 2 of the Iliad. Thank you to AHMA's Leah Packard-Grams and to Giuliano Sidro for their fantastic tour of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri () 📜⚱️🏺🐊

04/24/2024

Everything you ever wanted to to know about L'Année Philologique in one webinar... mark your calendars! 🤓📚

Join the Webinar on L’Année Philologique (APh), a full-scope bibliographic database for scholars of classical studies, on May 7th at 11AM EDT. Learn more and register for the webinar: https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/webinar-l%E2%80%99ann%C3%A9e-philologique-aph

04/18/2024

Some great images of the Olympic flame passing through the stadium at Ancient Nemea on its way to Paris for the 2024 Olympics! 🔥🏛⚡️

Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology

04/17/2024

Such a cool display!

04/12/2024

The visual culture of the Romans is unendingly beautiful and fascinating. 😍🤩🎨🖌Check out some of the recent discoveries from ! 🌋

Breathtaking new paintings were found at the ancient city of Pompeii in a new excavation reported by the BBC:
https://bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741

04/08/2024

This historic event is only one week away! The conference will take place in hybrid format, so if you're not in California, you can join virtually! Details below.

🔗 https://nemeacenter.berkeley.edu/nemea-100
🗓 The fun begins on Monday, April 16
📍UC Berkeley Campus, Dwinelle 370

04/05/2024

Coming up on Monday, the final Archaeological Institute of America San Francisco Society lecture of the season! Details 👇👇

🚨📣The final Archaeological Institute of America San Francisco society event is taking place this Monday, April 8th at 6:30pm in Dwinelle 370!

Our society is pleased to welcome Dr. Noel Hidalgo Tan (SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts) to deliver the annual AIA National Lecture, titled "Crouching Tigers, Hidden Elephants." The lecture will focus on recent work on rock art from Southeast Asia. See you there! Details 👇👇

04/01/2024

Coming up in two weeks! Join virtually or in person! Details 👇👇