The Department of Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University

04/17/2018

We are happy to announce the official restoration of "Department" status to Classics at Ohio Wesleyan after nearly half a century!

We are also delighted to spend the next few weeks celebrating the achievements of our senior Classics majors! Congratulations to Erin Fannin; Sarah Foster; Troy Jones; Matthew Pheneger; Meredith Dunn; and Karis Lowrie!

01/30/2018

Congratulations to Erin Fannin and Karis Lowrie on this article about their Classics Herbst trip to Europe!

https://www.owu.edu/news-media/details/my-whole-world-became-so-much-larger/

10/25/2017

The Classics Department is very proud of our majors Erin Fannin and Karis Lowrie for their excellent presentation on their trip to Italy! Nicely done!

09/27/2017

The Classics Department is very proud of our alumna Emma Hilliard, who has co-authored the Oxford online bibliography for Seneca's Oedipus! Congratulations Emma!

Seneca’s Oedipus, like all his plays, has in the past fifty years moved from being marginalized and rejected to being studied seriously in its own right as a poetic and dramatic product. This is reflected in the appearance in recent decades of two major commentaries and a number of fresh translation...

09/27/2017

Our own Dr. Fratantuono has published two more books in the past week! On the left is "Lucullus: The Life and Campaigns of a Roman Conqueror" and on the right is his commentary "Tacitus: Annals XVI." Congratulations, Dr. Fratantuono. We can't wait to see what's next! 📚

08/30/2017

Classics Club is back Wednesday at 7 pm in Merrick! See you there!

08/25/2017

The Classics Department is happy to announce that we've opened the order form for our 2017 sweatshirts! This order is open to all students, alumni, professors, family, and friends.
The bust on the front is of Chrysippus and the quote on the back is from Juvenal's second satire. It roughly translates to "they are unlearned persons, though you may find their houses crammed with plaster casts of Chrysippus; for their greatest hero is the man who has brought a likeness of Aristotle or Pittacus, or bids his shelves preserve an original portrait of Cleanthes." (Though if you don't like the translation when someone asks what it means, you can tell them whatever you want because they likely wouldn't be able to correct you.)
If you have any concerns about how we can get it to you, just let us know! https://www.customink.com/g/eqn0-00b4-fcgy

05/02/2017

The Department of Classics is happy to acknowledge our senior majors of 2017! Congratulations to Ceciley Bigler; Stephanie Rozsa; Lauren Gagne; Scott Payne; and Amanda Sisler!

03/28/2017

A sobering reminder of how hard life could be!

https://www.thelocal.it/20160527/groundbreaking-study-reveals-brutal-realities-of-life-in-ancient-rome

A groundbreaking study of 2,000 ancient Roman skeletons has shown how many of the ancient city's inhabitants were riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and were generally dead before 30.

03/09/2017

The OWU Classics Department now has an official Instagram page! Follow ... and thanks to Sarah Foster for setting this up for the department!

01/27/2017

Mark your calendars! Friday, 2 March, 4pm = Classics Lecture by Professor Caitlin Gillespie of Columbia University, who will be speaking on Boudica, Britain's warrior queen!

01/26/2017

We are delighted that Classics majors Erin Fannin and Karis Lowrie will be heading to Rome and Naples/Pompeii this summer to visit important historical and archaeological sites!