Department of Classics

The Classics Club invites you to come to Randolph 301B to create your very own hoplite shield. Paint and supplies will be provided, but bring whatever other crafting supplies you want to decorate your masterpiece. Once the shields are dry, we’ll use them to re-enact a hoplite battle on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 5:30 PM.

The re-enactment will take place in the Cistern, but we will meet in
Randolph 301B to organize the troops before we begin. This is a staged hand-to-hand combat ONLY event — no mock weapons will be used.

Each semester, the Classics Club hosts an ‘a-thon’ in which we read aloud an ancient epic from beginning to end. This year’s selected epic is Homer’s Odyssey. The Club is more excited about the Homer-a-thon this semester because it is a little different than in past semesters. Instead of staying up all night and reading Homer, the Club will be holding a public reading of the ancient epic throughout the day, Friday, in the Cistern Yard. There is a sign-up sheet on Dr. Gentile’s door (Randolph Hall 306D), if you would like to read. Come and go as your classes allow, but those who stay to the end will get a special treat! You can bring your own copy of the Odyssey or just follow along with your ears!

Come join us for the first Classics Club meeting of the year! We’re a club dedicated
to the fellowship of all lovers of the Classical World, not just Classics
majors and minors. See you there on Wednesday, August 27, 6PM (RAND 301B).

College of Charleston alumna, actor and playwright Colie McClellan ’10 brought
her one-woman show “They Call Me Arethusa” to Piccolo Spoleto this summer with
money she raised through a Kickstarter campaign.

The play, which deals with dating and domestic violence against women, was well received in Charleston.

Colie McClellan ’10

Now, McClellan is taking the show she wrote and co-produced on the road, where she hopes it will raise even more public awareness about the prevalence of the problem.

For more coverage: http://today.cofc.edu/2014/08/18/alumna-uses-acting-talents-to-shine-light-on-partner-violence/

We are pleased to welcome and welcome back all of our Classic students this fall. It promises to be an exciting semester. Look here for announcements and events for the Classics Club and the department.

New research confirms the value of a liberal arts and sciences university http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daan-braveman/the-value-of-a-liberal-ar_b_3791998.html

On Tuesday, May 20, Dr. James Lohmar gave an invited public lecture at the University of California Riverside, under the title “Gore Caesars: Toward a History of Horror.” This summer Dr. Lohmar has been a Mullen Fellow at the University of California Riverside. As a Fellow he has been conducting research in the Eaton archive, known for its holdings on the Fantastic in the Arts, including the horror genre and comics. His research in the Eaton Collection is on the coverage of horror cinema in such publications as Famous Monsters of Filmland, Cinefantastique, and Gore Creatures.

The annual conference for the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science is being held in St. Louis, February 27-March 1, 2014. This year Classics will be well represented. Dr. Gentile will present her research in a paper, “Food, Medicine, or Drug: Understanding Greek Kykeon,” and her student Ryan Simpson will also present his work, “The Transformation of Roman Medicine Examined with Dynamic Systems Theory.”

This year Classical Charleston and the Theodore Guérard Lecture Series will bring to campus three renowned scholars on citizenship and democracy: Dr. Deborah Boedeker (Brown University), Dr. Josiah Ober (Stanford University), and Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University).

Citizenship in a Democracy: Ancient Greece and Beyond

More than 2000 years after the foundation of the world’s first democracy in a small city-state called Athens, there are still lessons we can learn from it. Greek political culture, which intersected with the overlapping spheres of religion, war, and social values, has left an enduring legacy that continues to affect the way we formulate our questions and confront our challenges.

Schedule of Events.Democracy

The Departments of Classics and History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have invited Dr. Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael to present her research in public lectures there(February 17-18, 2014). Her talk, based on her recent book, is titled, “The Making of Roman Letters.”