Dear members of the Ancient Studies Community, Ancient Studies Week 2024 will take place during the week of Oct. 7-11. The annual Homerathon kicks off the week on Tuesday, Oct. 8, from...
October 2, 2024
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Let us know if you want to come!
Hi everyone! We will be having a trip to the Walters Art Museum on Saturday November 23rd! Please complete the google form below to let us know that you'd like to join! Do complete the form by...
October 1, 2024
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Women takeover and install communism. What could go wrong?
Readers are needed for a student and faculty reading of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen. The performance will take place on Wednesday, October 9 from 7:00-9:00 pm in PAHB 234. Pizza and soft drinks...
September 27, 2024
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Display of Antiquities from the Spiro Collection
There will be a display of antiques from the Spiro Collection in the Commons Main Street on Oct 11th from 1:30pm-3:30pm. Help Prof. Esther Read with taking down the display and returning the...
September 20, 2024
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Join Ancient Studies for a dramatic reading of Homer's Odyssey 10am-6pm at the "Forum" outside PAHB! Email Dr. Melissa Kutner (mabailey@umbc.edu) by Monday, September 30 to sign up for a...
September 16, 2024
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χαίρετε and Salvete!
We at the Ancient Studies council want to extend a very warm welcome to the new students who have begun their UMBC experience, and to those who are continuing their Retriever experience! Now, many...
September 5, 2024
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Dear ANCS Majors and Minors, The Dresher Center is developing a new humanities-student group, The Humanities Retrievers. The goal of the Humanities Retrievers is to provide undergraduate...
August 30, 2024
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Dear UMBC Ancient Studies Community, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) is holding the first of three information sessions about the ASCSA Academic Year Program on...
August 30, 2024
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STOP, DROP, and ENROLL in Introductory Ancient Greek!
STOP, DROP, and ENROLL in INTRODUCTORY ANCIENT GREEK, FA 2024! FULFILL YOUR LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT! Learn to read Homer, Sappho, Plato, Scripture, etc. in the original language! Impress your...
August 28, 2024
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Love stories are our subject, and these are dangerous things
Ancient-Greek contributions to the development and advancement of democracy, drama, philosophy, historiography, biology, medicine, astronomy, architecture — among other elements of culture — are...
August 14, 2024
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