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Students beginning in their first year use ancient artifacts from the Penn Museum collection to learn classical Latin and Greek.

A ninth-century manuscript of Boethius from Penn's Rare Book Collection.

Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University, speaking at the Penn Classics Colloquium, which takes place every Thursday afternoon during term.

Dramatic reading of Euripides' Bacchae by the CLST Undergraduate Advisory Board, with Professors Wilson (Teiresias) and Ker (Cadmus).

Students in CLST 308, "Visions of Rome," working with Piranesi prints in the Fisher Fine Arts Library special collections room.

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News

2/24

Reggie Kramer receives research award

College freshman Classical Studies Major Reggie Kramer has won the Phyllis B Katz Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
2/20

Donald Antenen named Dean’s Scholar

Senior Classical Studies major Donald Antenen receiving the SAS Dean’s Scholar award for academic distinction, at the Levin Family Dean’s Forum, February 19, 2015.
2/09

Ralph Rosen on satire from Horace to Charlie Hebdo

An interview with professor Rosen in the Daily Pennsylvanian.

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2/03

H.D., "Helen in Egypt," discussed by Annette Debo, Dee Morris and Julia Bloch

Today the Poetry Foundation releases PoemTalk episode #84, a discussion of H.D.'s modern lyric/epic rewriting of the Helen story, Helen in Egypt.
1/31

Sam Beckelhymer named TLL fellow for 2015–2016

Alumnus Sam Beckelhymer has been awarded the SCS/NEH Fellowship at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Institute in the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Munich, Germany for 2015–2016.