History of the Department
Notable People and Events
- 1886: student production of Aristophanes' Acharnians
- 1887: foundation of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- 1893: Alice Minerva Atkinson becomes one of the two first women to earn an M.A. at Penn. She later earned Penn's first Ph.D. in Classical Studies.
- 1903: student production of Euripides' Iphigeneia at Tauris
- 1915: English production of Euripides' Trojan Women and revival of the 1903 Iphigeneia at Tauris in the University Botanical Gardens
- 1961: awarding of first Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology
- 1966: creation of the Graduate Group in Ancient History
- 1970: The Pennsylvania Declaration Regarding the Illicit Trade in Art Objects
- 1984: creation of the Post-baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies
- 1992: creation of the Graduate Group in Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World