Typically, at the start of each academic year, the Classics Department hosts a welcome reception at the Brown Faculty Club to celebrate the start of the school year.

This year, Classics @ Brown held our second annual Button Badge Competition. We asked all undergraduates in Classics courses to create an design that they felt represented Classics at Brown University.

This Fall, Professor Amy Russell joins the Department of Classics at Brown University as Assistant Professor of Classics.

"The tradition of the Vietnamese reception of classical literature has not yet been examined, and this article is the first to venture into this intersection between Classics and Vietnamese studies."

This afternoon marked the end of the formal teaching period in the Spring 2020 semester, a memorable one.

Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest and most prestigious academic honors society in the United States. It encourages intellectual distinction among undergraduates by recognizing “outstanding academic accomplishment in the course of a broad liberal education.”

“For the last thirteen years, I’ve been working on a new theory of tragedy where risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. Why risk?—risk is just so fascinating that someone had to build a theory of drama around it.

The Classics Department is pleased to announce that two of our graduate students have recently received awards.

Jamie Flynn, a Senior, and a concentrator in Classics @ Brown, has published a book review of Paul Rahe's recent work on Sparta's strategy and foreign policy during the mid-5th century BCE.

Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest and most prestigious academic honors society in the United States.

Brown University made its presence known at this years SCS/AIA annual meeting.

Every winter, the Society for Classical Studies holds a joint meeting with the Archaeological Institute of America. Students and scholars from all over attend this annual event to partake in the intellectual exchange by participating in presentations, panel discussions, performances, book sales, and even job searches.

Traveling to attend conferences and seminars is an important part of the graduate student experience at Brown.

This Fall, Professor Candace Rice joins Brown University as Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics.

Classics Department graduate student, Gaia Gianni (PhD, Classics) and undergraduate student Victoria Lansing (class of 2020), are in Rome teaching a Brown Pre-College program this summer.

It is Commencement season once again at Brown, and the Classics Department has events going on throughout the Commencement Weekend that our faculty, students, and families are invited to.

This year, Classics @ Brown introduced the first Button Badge Competition.

On Monday, April 29th, the Department of Classics held its annual New Concentrators Reception.

The Brown Classics Department is pleased to announce that our very own Dr. Michael C.J. Putnam (Professor Emeritus, 2008) will receive the Arete Award from The Paideia Institute at next week’s 2nd Annual Paideia Institute Gala.

On Thursday April 11, 2019, the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium (NEAHC) celebrated 40 years of its existence.

The Brown Department of Classics is pleased to announce the 2019 David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History.

The Classics Department at Brown University is hosting a half-day workshop for the Asian American Studies Writing Group (AASWG).

The Department of Classics will offer two Language Prize Exams in the month of March. 

Classics @ Brown is pleased to announce its participation in Linking Islands of Data, a UK-USA network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).

Classics Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston will be giving a presentation for the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) as part of their "What I'm Thinking About Now" series.

Classics graduate student, Erika Valdivieso, will be giving a presentation at the John Carter Brown Library entitled, “Guadalupe (MS. 1594, BNM): Text, Context, and the Virgilian Tradition.”

Classics faculty member, David Buchta, spent his summer involved in research and travel.

The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Roman History and Latin Prose, to begin July 1, 2019.

The Classical Association of New England (CANE) and Brown's Department of Classics invite you to join us for the 2018 CANE Summer Institute.

The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a one-year visiting appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July, 2018.

Classics Professor Stratis Papaioannou has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship.

Classics Alumna Madeline Miller, '00, will be at the Brown Bookstore on Thursday, April 26th to present her new book, Circe.