University at Buffalo Department of Classics

10/30/2026

A reminder for Saturday!

Saturday, Oct 31, 2026, 12:30-3 PM, Park 250

The Classics Department’s First Annual Homerathon, i.e., a continuous, public reading of of Homer's Odyssey. Everyone is invited to take turns reading their favorite passages aloud (in any language) until the entire work (or as much of it as possible) is completed.

Sign up with your passage

Saturday, October 31, 2026 @ 1pm-3pm UB North Campus, Park 250 Questions? Email [email protected]

10/29/2026

TODAY!

Thursday, Oct 29, 2026, 5:00-6:30 PM, Alumni Arena 97

The Classics Department Presents "Singing The Odyssey".
Joe's Odyssey is 24 songs inspired by Odysseus' famous exploits and, in a contemporary musical style, represents both the abridged plot and the performance circumstances of Homer's original oral composition of the Odyssey. The performance runs around 35 minutes and is followed by a robust audience discussion. More information at See less
Joe's Odyssey
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Joe's Odyssey

10/23/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

Saturday, Oct 31, 2026, 12:30-3 PM, Park 250

The Classics Department’s First Annual Homerathon, i.e., a continuous, public reading of of Homer's Odyssey.

Everyone is invited to take turns reading their favorite passages aloud (in any language) until the entire work (or as much of it as possible) is completed.

Sign up with your passage

Saturday, October 31, 2026 @ 1pm-3pm UB North Campus, Park 250 Questions? Email [email protected]

10/23/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

Thursday, Oct 29, 2026, 5:00-6:30 PM, Alumni Arena 97

The Classics Department Presents "Singing The Odyssey".

Joe's Odyssey is 24 songs inspired by Odysseus' famous exploits and, in a contemporary musical style, represents both the abridged plot and the performance circumstances of Homer's original oral composition of the Odyssey. The performance runs around 35 minutes and is followed by a robust audience discussion. More information at

Home page of Joe's Odyssey, a folk artist. Joe Goodkin's Odyssey is a modern musical interpretation of Homer's epic poem meant for high school, college, and general audiences

10/23/2026

TODAY!

09/15/2026

08/14/2026

07/15/2026

From one of our undergraduate students, James Kottakis. Congratulations!

My paper titled “There and Back Again: Tiresias and the Autonomy of Gender Transformations in Ovid’s Metamorphoses” is going to be published in Astyanax Journal in September 2026. Astyanax Journal is a peer reviewed undergraduate Classics journal run by the University of Reading, and this will be its inaugural publication. I had the opportunity to present my paper earlier in the summer at the University of Reading’s “Launching Astyanax” academic conference in the UK. I am very grateful to the Classics department for providing the funding and support to pursue this academic achievement.

06/08/2026

“Professor Stephen Dyson (1937-2026) was a scholar of many talents, with a passion for Roman history and archaeology, and the dissemination of knowledge to those who took his classes and worked alongside him. As we remember Professor Dyson and his impact on our department, an in memoriam has been set-up in the Goetz Library, displaying many of his published contributions to the Classical world. Students and faculty are welcome to sign-out any of these books with the hope that Prof. Dyson’s knowledge continues to shape our perspectives on the Roman world. ”