In two days!!

Congratulations to Mary Catherine Contreras and Alex Houseman on defending their MA theses! Mary Catherine applied feminist care ethics to the letters of Marcus Aurelius and Fronto, and Alex explored faulty self-construction in Senecan tragedy. We are so proud of them both!

Congratulations to our newest batch of Classics graduates! We are so proud and excited to see what lies ahead for our brilliant students.

Please join us on Thursday, September 19th for a talk by Will Austin, Princeton PhD student and graduate of our very own MA program! Will's talk is entitled "From Paintings to Vases: Ornament and the Surface Decoration of Attic Decorated Pottery." Come one, come all!

Tomorrow!

Please join us next Thursday, 10/10, for the Department of Classics' inaugural Stehle-Johnson Lecture! We are thrilled to host Prof. Melissa Mueller for a talk on "Sappho's Poetry In/As Performance." To attend online, RSVP here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Craft night with the grad students! MA students and faculty flexed their watercolor skills at the Made in MD store last Friday!

Please join us next Thursday, February 13th for a talk by Dr. Christopher Celenza, entitled "Prolegomena for a New History of Western Thought"! 5 PM in the Maryland Room of Marie Mount Hall. classics.umd.edu/events/dr-chri…

This exciting talk will take place later today! Come one, come all!

Please join us tomorrow for this fascinating lecture by Justin Walsh on the archaeology of the International Space Station! 7 PM in F.S. Key Hall 0106, with a virtual option.

It's #GivingDay Univ. of Maryland! Please consider donating to the Classics Department today. Your donation would help support scholarships for study abroad, making this transformative cultural experience available to more students. givingday.umd.edu/campaigns/clas…

Listen to our illustrious chair and support the Classics Department on #GivingDay!

Many congratulations to Shandi Li, Will Roberts, and Leonid West (pictured here with their proud advisors, Katherine Wasdin and Peter Osorio) for defending their MA theses today!

The Classics department invites you all to attend our yearly Modern Greek Studies conference! This fabulous event includes student and faculty presentations, a musical performance, and more.

Check out this article spotlighting our graduating senior, Lylah Messinger! After spending a year restoring a 2500 yr old Etruscan hydra, she is off to University College London to study conservation. Congratulations, Lylah! We are so proud. arhu.umd.edu/news/future-co…

Many congratulations to our 2025 Classics graduates! We are so proud of everything they have achieved, and we look forward to watching them rise to the challenge of this new phase of life. In the words of our chair Eric Adler , si valetis, valemus!