Columbia University Department of Classics

02/20/2025

https://ancient-mediterranean.columbia.edu/events/workshop-toward-a-literary-history-of-the-achaemenid-empire/

Visit the post for more.

01/02/2025

Current Columbia graduate students and alumni,

If you are attending this year’s AIA/SCS annual meeting in Philadelphia, we would love to see you! Please stop by the hotel bar of the Marriott on Saturday, 6:00-7:30pm and join us for a drink (thanks to the generosity of the CU Classics Dept). It would be great to see you!

Happy new year and good conferencing,
Joseph Howley
Kristina Milnor

10/27/2024

https://news.columbia.edu/news/new-history-ancient-greek-city-state

In Polis, John Ma looks at this classical institution, and finds it’s still relevant today.

10/15/2024

Tenure-track job in Latin literature at , to start next AY.

04/19/2024

04/15/2024

The 2023-2024 Fellows✨

Meet Paraskevi Martzavou for this week’s !

Paraskevi Martzavou was born and raised in Thessaloniki where she attended Aristole University. She also studied in Hungary (Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, and Debrecen University) and worked as an archaeologist for the Greek Archaeological Service. She pursued her graduate studies in Paris and obtained her doctorate in epigraphy, Greek Institutions, and ancient history (École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVème Section). At Oxford University she held a post-doctoral position on “The social and cultural construction of Emotions in the Greek World”. Since 2015 she has lectured in the Classics Department at Columbia University where she teaches Greek literature, history, and culture from Homer to the present.

To read more about Paraskevi and her work at the Institute, click on the MEET OUR FELLOWS link in our bio!

09/20/2022

http://classics.columbia.edu/news/2022/9/19/debbie-steiner-amp-katharina-volk-wins-goodwin-award

The Department of Classics is thrilled to congratulate Debbie Steiner and Katharina Volk for winning the Goodwin Award for this year. As we all know, the Goodwin Award, given out by the SCS, acknowledges "outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the society". This w

09/13/2022

Marcus Folch and Neni Panourgia in dialogue at the Justice Forum, Public Humanities, Heyman Center, September 28

There was a point in human history prior to which there were virtually no prisons and another point after which prisons were quite common. For the peoples living along the ancient Mediterranean, the transition from the first point to the second coincided with the formation of complex, urban…

05/17/2022

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