September is already coming to a close, but the Department of Classics has already been very busy getting back into the swing of things this semester!

This Fall, Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston joins us as an Assistant Professor specializing in Latin literature of the Roman empire.

Brown and the Department of Classics hosted the annual meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) in the spring semester, May 4-6, 2017.

The Department of Classics is pleased to report the recent publication of two works by Professor Stratis Papaioannou.

A unique collection of nearly 300 books printed by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (ca. 1450-1515) represents the historical vestige of a time before John Carter Brown turned his sights to collecting Americana.

The Department of Classics is delighted to announce our very own Professor Johanna Hanink’s recent publication of her book, “The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity.”

Classics concentrator Yvette Schein ('16), a co-editor of this year's forthcoming issue of the Brown Classical Journal, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Study/Research award to conduct research next year in Norway.

Sam Holzman, a Classics and Archaeology concentrator who graduated in 2011, has published an "archaeological note" on 'asperity' in Roman architecture in this year's issue of the prestigious Journal of Roman Archaeology.

Brown undergraduate Max Rosenwasser had an UTRA this summer under the direction of Professor Lisa Mignone.

Byron MacDougall and Matthew Wellenbach, both Brown Classics grad students set to defend their dissertations this April, have published articles in the latest issue of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies.

The Classics Department presents the 2013 Francis Wayland Language Prize Exams.

The Brown Classical Journal invites all undergraduates with an interest in Classics to submit works relevant to the ancient world and its traditions in subsequent eras.

The Brown Classical Journal invites all undergraduates with an interest in Classics to submit works relevant to the ancient world and its traditions in subsequent eras.

The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a senior Hellenist (Associate or Full Professor) with a specialization in ancient Greek History.

Alumna Madeline Miller was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Song of Achilles. At the awards ceremony May 30, 2012, Miller received £30,000 (about $46,000) and the “Bessie,” a limited-edition bronze figurine. The Song of Achilles retells the story of Patroclus and the legendary warrior Achilles from their first meeting as children to their deaths at the siege of Troy. Miller worked on the book for 10 years while teaching Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students.

Stratis Papaioannou, Associate Professor of Classics, won this year's Graduate Advising and Mentoring Award.

From April 13-15, Brown will be hosting a conference entitled: "Being Nobody? Understanding Slavery Thirty Years After Slavery and Social Death.

Professor Joseph Pucci has been named one of the top 300 professors in the nation in the Princeton Review's new guidebook The Best 300 Professors.

Adam Katz, a Brown sophomore, has been awarded an UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) from the Dean of the College for a summer research collaboration with Johanna Hanink (Assistant Professor of Classics).

The Brown Classical Journal invites all undergraduates with an interest in Classics to submit works relevant to the ancient world and its traditions in subsequent eras.

The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a specialist in ancient Greek literature at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or tenured Associate Professor.

The David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History: instituted by Isabelle Pingree and Brown University in 2011 to honor the distinguished career of her late husband Professor David E. Pingree, University Professor and Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics at Brown University until his death in 2005.

Melissa Sassin (entry year 2009) speaks about why Brown Classics works for her.

Professor Emeritus of Classics, Kurt Raaflaub was named a recipient of a 2010 Mellon Emeritus Fellowship.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society has chosen Ella Grunberger-Kirsh as the winner of the 2024 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship. The Fellowship comes with a stipend of $20,000. Established in 1934 by Isabelle Stone in honor of her mother, this fellowship recognizes exceptional young scholars in various humanistic fields. Ella plans to use the fellowship to adapt her dissertation into a book. Her project, “The Memory-Writers: a Social and Intellectual History of Shorthand in Late Antiquity,” tracks the development of shorthand as a cultural artifact from the fourth to the seventh centuries C. E. Her project weaves together this linguistic history of shorthand with an investigation of shorthand-writers in the institutional record and reveals how shorthand-writers were viewed by others and how lives spent toggling between symbols and alphabets influenced the way they imagined themselves and their society.