Department Events
Lectures
Prof. Gregory Nagy
Francis Jones Professor of Classics, Harvard University
Director, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.
The Fragmentary Muse & the Poetics of Refraction in Sappho, Sophocles, Offenbach
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
4:00 P.M. - Smith Room 201
Prof. Casey Dué
Department of Classical and Modern Languages
University of Houston
Agamemnon's Densely Packed Sorrow:
How to Read A Homeric Simile
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
4:30 P.M. - Smith Room 210
Classics Day
The Department of Classics of the College of the Holy Cross hosted CLASSICS DAY, this year, on THURSDAY, APRIL 17. It featured Certamen, a contest involving Latin grammar, Roman and Greek mythology, Roman history, and Roman life. This contest included both Upper and Lower Divisions. A costume contest and a chariot race was also held.
Students from St. Sebastian's High School run in the chariot race on Holy Cross Classics Day 2008. Courtesy of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Questions about the Classics Department? Call us at 508-793-2547 or e-mail classicsdept@holycross.edu.