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A time frame for late Iroquoian prehistory is firmly established on the basis of the presence/absence of European trade goods and other archeological indicators. However, independent dating evidence is lacking. We use 86 radiocarbon measurements to test and (re)define existing chronological understanding. Warminster, often associated with...
Would you like to spend part of your summer vacation improving your Greek or Latin (or even start one of the languages from scratch)? If so, then we would love to try to support your endeavors.The Classics Department would like to announce that up to three fellowships for summer study in ancient languages are available for summer study in ancient...
Calendar for 2019-20December 15: application deadlineJanuary 27: offer of admissionFebruary 8: Visit DayExploreAt Cornell, graduate study is organized using a field structure.The Field of Classics includes faculty from:Near Eastern StudiesArt HistoryHistoryPhilosophyMusicGovernmentLandscape ArchitectureYou can find the list of...
Check our page How to Apply Join a vibrant community of scholars who promote an interdisciplinary approach to the ancient world and work on a wide range of topics! Ancient Philosophy from Plato to Plotinus and AugustineAncient Religion from Classical Greece to Roman Egypt and Late AntiquityAncient Science and TechnologyArchaeological...
In Pliny the Elder’s encyclopedic Natural History, written in the first century AD, he recounts the story of a painter, Protogenes. Attempting to capture the foam around a dog’s mouth, Protogenes became so frustrated that he threw a sponge at the canvas. The resulting impression created just the look he had wanted.“For Pliny,” says Verity J....
Over the past year, Cornell archaeological scientists have played a central role in a collaboration with the U.S. National Park Service to document foot prints from extinct Pleistocene megafauna including humans, at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. The foot prints which number in the thousands, are often referred to as “ghost tracks”...
How, where, and why might we want to reconceive of “poetic justice” not as the pursuit of redemptive vengeance, but as a representation of psychological, conversational, social harmony? How might a densely textured rereading of Plato’s intricate dialogues help us to realize these personal/artistic/civic ends? And how might cultivating this...
In place of Odysseus’s 20 years at sea, Joe Goodkin only needed a guitar to bring a fresh version of the Odyssey back to Ithaca.Musician Joe Goodkin performed Joe’s Odyssey, a modern western musical adaption of Homer’s The Odyssey, using an acoustic guitar and his vocals at an event hosted by thedepartment of Classics this Tuesday.Goodkin felt...
The Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP) is an international and interdisciplinary fieldwork project investigating the rural craft site of Podere Marzuolo (ca. 2 ha) in southern Tuscany (Italy). It is directed by CIAMS professor Astrid Van Oyen, and this summer several CIAMS graduate and undergraduate students participated in excavations at the...
Students from The Cyprus Institute and Cornell University participated in a seminar on Dendrochronology and Architectural History held on June 14th at the Church of the Holy Cross in the village of Pelendri. Led by Cornell Professor Sturt Manning and CyI Assoc. Professor Nikolas Bakirtzis, this full-day seminar introduced students to the method of...
Listed below are some of the new and highlighted Spring 2022 course offerings from the Department of Classics.Egyptomania: Imagining Egypt in the Greco-Roman World (CLASS 2685)Instructor: Caitlín E. Barrett and Stephen SansomCourse Time: TR 2:45-4:00 (discussions: W 1:30-2:20 or R 10:10-11:00)Throughout Greek and Roman history, the idea of...
"After more than 30 years practicing medicine and doing science, this invitation prompted me to ask myself the personal version of the famous question from Life of Brian: “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done...
Switching his boss from the Pope to Cornell president-elect Martha Pollack, Daniel Gallagher is leaving his post as papal secretary in the Vatican to teach in the classics department starting this fall.“The appointment of Dan Gallagher to Cornell’s classics department is a milestone in the teaching of Latin nationwide,” Interim President Hunter...
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants and four small grants to Cornell faculty members to support their international research.Astrid Van Oyen (Department of Classics, College of Arts and Sciences) is a small grant recipient for The Marzuolo Archaeological Project (MAP): Innovation and Community in the...
The Department of Classics is very sad to report the news of the passing of long-time Chair’s Assistant Katrina Neff. Katrina was a wonderful member of the Classics family at Cornell and will be greatly missed by all.
If you think you know Oedipus, you may be in for some surprises when students take on Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Oedipus (Tyrannus)” next week at the Schwartz Center.Translated into English and directed by Frederick Ahl, professor of classics and comparative literature, the play is presented by the Department of Classics and by students in Ahl’s...
Mark your calendars for Sustaining the Antique, our 21st-century FESTIVAL OF CLASSICS! If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Verity Platt (vjp33@cornell.edu) as soon as possible. On October 28 and 29, we will come together for events featuring Living Latin; talks by Ann Patty (author of Living with a Dead...
By: Agnes Shin, A&S CommunicationsQuinn Olsen ’16 is combining her interests in archaeology and engineering to complete a concurrent degree in Classics and civil engineering.While this may seem like an odd (and surely unconventional) mix, Olsen says that the concurrent degree blends her interests together quite well. In high school, she’d...
National Geographic flew Kim Haines-Eitzen to Rome last fall to feature in an episode of “The Story of God,” a new television series starring Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman. Haines-Eitzen will appear in the “Apocalypse” episode on April 10.“Although the experience of filming was quite a contrast to my work in the classroom and in my research...
