When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...

In September 2010, Mary McClanahan, an alumna of the program (BA ’67, MA ’69), made a very generous planned gift to endow an annual series of Classics department lectures, typically three public ...

Professor F. D. Allen spoke last night before the Classical Club on "Classical Studies since the Renaissance." The study of the classics, said Professor Allen, can never be what it formerly was. Never ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Classical Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts is collaborating with the African American Studies and Research Center on a lecture series that explores how African ...

In this classic video from 1977, Milton Friedman delivers a 52-minute lecture at Utah State University titled “Myths That Conceal Reality” including: 1) the Robber Baron Myth, 2) the Great Depression ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s annual Classical Week returns Sept. 19-23 featuring a lecture by a renowned classics expert and two outdoor performances of an early Roman comedy. The week is an ...

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF OUR CONCEPT OF CHAOS? The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not ...

Doha, Qatar: The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has announced the upcoming series of its online programme, “Watching the Classics,” which aims to deepen the knowledge of filmmakers and cinephiles about ...