Archive for June, 2013

On three successive Thursdays in February (the 7th, 14th, and 21st), Associate Professor Dr. Neil Bernstein will lead a discussion group on Ovid’s Metamorphoses as part of the Epic Book Club program at the Athens County Public Library. The Metamorphoses, a fifteen-book epic by the Roman poet Ovid, dates from […]

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Eta Sigma Phi Gamma of Ohio held a colloquium on What’s Next? Jobs and Professions after Graduation. A number of alumni participated: two in person (Paul Patton and Max Smith), two via Google Hangout (Casey Neill and Eden Oxley), and three with written responses to […]

Dr. Harry Eugene “Gene” Blocker, former member of the Classics & World Religions Department and the Philosophy Department, passed away on April 12, 2013, after a long battle with cancer. A native of Texas, he earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1960 and a Ph.D. […]

April 19, 2013 By Jim Andrews The annual “Taste of Classics” event, sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, Gamma of Ohio, takes place Monday, April 22, 2013 at 5 p.m. in Ellis 113. In addition to various delectable dishes, a delectable little play will be performed (in English and Latin) by […]

September 29, 2011 Tim Smith Go Greek (No, really. Greek) Come learn about Eta Sigma Phi, Ohio University’s honor society for students of Latin and Greek. A recruitment dinner is Thursday, Sept. 29, k2011, at 7 p.m. in Ellis Hall 212.

November 22, 2011 By Rachel Thomas Classics is a field filled with some of the most fascinating parts of history. As a field, it is almost by nature interdisciplinary–one can’t study Classics without studying politics, literature, law, religion, language, and philosophy. It is not a field for the faint of […]