As part of Commencement Weekend, Prof. Iris Levin & our own Prof. Zoe Kontes will present on their travel-embedded courses this term: "Global Learning: Greece and the Galápagos," May 16, 3:30-4:30, Community Foundation Theater, at the Gund. kenyon.edu/events/global-…

Senior Classics majors & minors Kenyon College, bring your Commencement entourage to our departmental reception, May 16, 4:30-6:00, under a tent on Peirce Lawn. Here are some enticing photos of last year's spread.

We're hoping for the famed locally farmed purple asparagus when KenyonClassics profs attend the Sr Class Dinner, Wed. May 14, 5-7, Peirce Hall.

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So great to meet the families and friends of our 16 graduating majors & minors at our reception on Commencement Eve Kenyon College.

Kudos to recently minted History PhD Daniela Edmeier (Major '15), on her co-edited volume, Picturing Black History: Photographs & Stories That Changed the World, which has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award and praised by New York Times Books: store.abramsbooks.com/products/pictu…

Warmest congratulations to our 7 majors & 9 minors who graduated Kenyon College last weekend. All 7 majors received Latin honors, 2 were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, & 1 was co-valedictorian. 🥳

Welcome back, Kenyon Alumni! Classics faculty will be attending the reception on Fri. at 3, and on Sat. at 2, Prof. Kontes will speak about taking her Greek Archaeology students to Greece earlier this year.

In the most recent @Kenyon_Alumni magazine, Prof. Adam Serfass & two of Kenyon College's newest alumnae, Ellis Copley '25 & Chiara Nevard '25, write about their bicentennial project studying the college's Latin & Greek inscriptions. bulletin.kenyon.edu/feature/voices…

Congratulations to Thomas Nelson (Minor' 25), who has been named an All-American for the third time.

Answer: Tiberius. Question: Who is the favorite Roman emperor of our Kenyon College Art History colleague, Prof. Anne LaGatta, who will be appearing on an episode of Jeopardy! airing May 29?

Prof. Adam Serfass has published translations of Ambrose & Augustine (including the famous scene below painted by Fra Angelico) in the most recent volume of The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: doi.org/10.1017/978110… Cambridge Core

Congratulations to newly minted Kenyon Alumni Shaun Flanigan (Major '25), who has been named a Legislative Fellow for the Ohio General Assembly LSC Fellowship

At the Vergilian Society's annual symposium in Cuma, Italy next week, Prof. Micah Myers will deliver a paper, "Katabatic Elements in the Embassy to Diomedes (Aen. 11.243–95)?" vergiliansociety.org/symposia/sympo…

Kudos to the Office of Communications Kenyon College, which won a 2025 Circle of Excellence Award from CASE for the Kenyon Alumni Magazine: case.org/awards/circle-…

Warm regards to Royal Rhodes, prof. emeritus of religious studies Kenyon College (& undergrad classics major), on being named 2025 Gambier Citizen of the Year. knoxpages.com/2025/07/04/rho…