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July 12, 2012 Tim Smith New from Oxford are two publications from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies and Classics. As described on the website, these publications combine the “best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.” Each bibliography covers more than a hundred topics–with more to be added […]

January 18, 2013 Tim Smith The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a Fellowship to Dr. Loren Lybarger, Associate Professor of Classics & World Religions, to support research on religion and identity among Palestinian immigrants in Chicago during the 2013-14 academic year. This grant will allow Lybarger to complete the […]

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. […]

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 […]