Historian Barry Strauss wins 2025 Bradley Prize
The award carries a stipend of $300,000; Strauss will receive the award at a ceremony on May 29 in Washington, D.C.
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Although it gets its core identity (and its name) from the "great books" that it quite rightly teaches again and again, Classics survives and thrives by striving to encompass the classical Mediterranean under many aspects and methodologies, so that its faculty all represent other fields of study as well: archaeology, art, philosophy, religion, history, linguistics, comparative literature or theater.
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War, love and loyalty: The ‘Iliad’ in Ithaca on March 12-13
A virtual event with translator Emily Wilson and a daylong community reading of portions of Homer’s epic poem highlight the spring Arts Unplugged event.
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Experts call for 'accountability' before restoring Syria heritage sites
Cornell experts comment on the restoration of Syria's damaged and looted historical sites.
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Frederick Ahl, innovative classics scholar, dies at 83
A scholar of Greek and Roman epic and drama and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, Ahl was a member of the Cornell faculty for more than 52 years.
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GUEST ROOM | Classics is the Best Subject to Address Our Current Age - The Cornell Daily Sun
Max Nam '26 advises Cornell students to take a Classics course and discover the relevancy and relatability of ancient Rome.
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New Klarman Fellows to join the College of Arts and Sciences
Fellows will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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Manning honored for contributions to archaeology
Sturt Manning, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) in Boston in November.
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Conference considers medicine from historical standpoint
The Nov. 2 conference will focus on an interdisciplinary approach.
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Undergraduate Program
Coursework in Classics can involve everything from learning to read ancient tragedies in their original languages (and even performing in them yourself) to studying what archaeobotanical evidence can tell us about climate change on the millennial scale.
Graduate Program
Our doctoral program fully promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the ancient world. We offer all students an opportunity to develop a comprehensive course of study within one of our five concentrations: ancient history, ancient philosophy, classical archaeology and art, classical literature and philology, and Greek and Latin languages and linguistics. We support a strong series of colloquia in which faculty, guest speakers, and graduate students are presented with current work in our field of study.
Classics Events
Apr
16
Wednesday
04:30 PM
Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics
Olin LIbrary
107
Apr
25
Friday
04:30 PM
Classics Speaker Series: Craig Williams
Goldwin Smith Hall
142