Tulane Department of Classical Studies

09/08/2026

The Department of Classical Studies is hosting an Open House, and we want to see you and your friends. We invite all students to come by our departmental suites in Jones Hall 210 & 206 to take a trip through classics. Meet people and create connections. Visit with professors and mingle with your classmates. Take in all the aspects the Classics Department has to offer. Enjoy refreshments and take home some Classics swag.

Tulane Classics Open House
Friday, September 25, 2026
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Jones Hall 210 & 206
6801 Freret Street

Tulane University is committed to providing universal access to all our events. Please contact Elizabeth M Reyna [[email protected], 504-845-5719], the event organizer for accessibility accommodations. Please note that advance notice is necessary to arrange some accessibility needs.

08/14/2026

Be sure to get your summer watching in before classes start!

08/13/2026

Classical Studies refuses to be one thing because it's everything!
School of Liberal Arts Open House 2026

08/03/2026

https://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-professors-discovery-comes-full-circle-roman-artifact-returns-home-prepared-museum

An ancient Roman tablet found in a New Orleans backyard by one Tulane professor and identified by another will soon go on permanent display at a museum in Civitavecchia, Italy, more than 80 years after the artifact disappeared from the city.

07/13/2026

Mallory Monaco Caterine (CLAS) and Ambika Prasad (BSLS) will showcase their interdisciplinary course that brings together classical texts, visual arts and community engagement to help students explore what leadership looks like across cultures, historical periods and social contexts with their presentation, “The Artful Leader: Teaching Leadership Through Art, Classical Texts and Community,” at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences July 15-17 at the University of Galway in Ireland.

The Artful Leader is an interdisciplinary course that brings together classical texts, visual arts and community engagement to help students explore what leadership looks like across cultures, historical periods and social contexts.

06/02/2026

Joe Park Poe, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Tulane University, died on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at the age of 89.

As a scholar, Joe was recognized internationally among Classicists for the breadth and originality of his work. He published important monographs and articles on Greek drama, Latin elegiac poetry, the Aeneid, Senecan tragedy, and Roman topography.

Joe’s teaching style was exemplary of the “old school.” He always wore a coat and tie when he taught and never called a student by their first name. He painstakingly explained ablative absolutes, gerunds and gerundives, passive periphrastics, and futures less vivid as though such concepts really mattered, and to him they did. He was demanding but compassionate, serious but funny. He cultivated an atmosphere of mutual respect in the classroom, which made his students want to do their best.

Celebrate the life of Joe Poe, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home & Cemeteries.

05/07/2026

Classics in Motion
By Cameron Todd
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Classical Studies at Tulane connects ancient texts, artifacts, and performance with contemporary scholarship and public engagement.

05/06/2026

2,000-year-old Roman tombstone found in New Orleans returns home to Italy: ‘We are delighted’
BY POET WOLFE | Staff writer Apr 30, 2026

https://www.nola.com/news/ancient-roman-tombstone-returns-home/article_2730c55e-6443-4e21-9659-01c05b0de510.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2%2C000-year-old%20Roman%20tombstone%20found%20in%20New%20Orleans%20returns%20home%20to%20Italy%3A%20‘We%20are%20delighted’&utm_campaign=tulanetoday-6may2026-fsa -source=featured-3

05/05/2026

https://youtu.be/TxIzAfdJReo?si=DOa16TXTr6P3qK2J

Tulane professor gains worldwide attention after Roman artifact discoveryhttps://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-scholar-gains-worldwide-attention-after-roman-ar...

04/09/2026