UGA Classics

Come check out the Classics booth at the Study Away Fair!

We have tons of info about how you can study away next summer in Rome, Europe and even Croatia! Come see some of the Faculty that will be on the study abroad trips in the Tate Atrium and Concourse September 16th and 17th from 11am to 4pm!

Ask them about the trips and get to know more about the exciting learning opportunities!

The classical Roman writer Lucretius was not a scientist. However, he was a convert. The Greek philosopher Epicurus had developed a theory of how the collision of atoms brought about all the phenomena of everyday life and that human happiness could only be attained by banishing superstition through a careful study of the universe and its processes.

Lucretius took the ideas of Epicurus and created one of the most remarkable documents of the ancient world, a full-throated exposition of the Epicurean world-view. This work has come down to us in a poem called de rerum natura, On the Nature of Things.

In honor of this work, which highlights the close historical link between the humanities and the science disciplines, you are invited to join in a public reading of Lucretius’ poem outside the Main Library on Tuesday, March 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as part of the 2025 UGA Humanities Festival. We will be reading from the translation of Classics UGA alumna and MacArthur Prize winner A.E. Stallings. Readers will include UGA students, administrators, faculty members, and community residents and public officials.

Introducing Greg Lavender, "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cultural Evolution of Computational Thought from Pythagoras to the AI Era"

November 5th at 12:30-2pm in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Hotel, Mahler Hall with reception to follow in the Hill Atrium.

November 6th at 10am-11:30am in the Rusk Center, Larry Walker Room with reception to follow outside the Larry Walker Room.

Greg Lavender is executive vice president, chief technology officer and general manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel Corporation. He received his BS from UGA in computer science as well as his MS and Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech. Let us welcome our esteemed alumnus!

Join us for the Interdisciplinary Humanities Lecture Series (Philosophy, English, and Classics) presenting Dimitris Vardoulakis "The Destruction of Metaphysics? On the Opposition between Epicureanism and Stoicism"

Dimitris Vardoulakis in visiting from Western Sydney University on Tuesday, October 8th at 4pm in 115 Peabody Hall. Hope to see you there!

Applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2025 Study Abroad programs - UGA Europe: Unearthing the Past, UGA in Rome, and UGA Croatia: Cultural Heritage and Archaeology.

Students on the UGA Classics Europe Unearthing the Past program take in the sweeping views of the Ancient Agora at the start of the program in Athens, Greece.

The Department of Classics Spring Convocation will be on May 9th, 4-6pm at the Founders Memorial Garden.

Join Kendall Lovely from University of California on April 17th via Zoom from 4pm - 5:30pm for "A Virtual Curatorial Tour of Red Coral Stories: Reimagining Classical Pasts for Native Futures".

Scan the QR code on the poster to register.

Assistant Professor Jordan Pickett will present questions and results from his on-going fieldwork on the Acropolis at Sardis in western Turkey on Thursday 28 March, 12pm via zoom. Registration is required but free and open to the public, here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/recycled_cities

Today at the Humanities Festival, Alicia Stallings will give the opening lecture at 6pm in the UGA Chapel.

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. In October 2023, she began her four-year elected term as Oxford Professor of Poetry, one of the world’s most prestigious academic honors in the field of poetry.

This event is presented by the Department of Classics, the Felson Classics Endowment, the Willson Center, the Jere W. Morehead Honors College, the UGA at Oxford Program, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and by the UGA Humanities Council as the opening keynote event of the UGA Humanities Festival. It is also part of the Willson Center's Global Georgia public event series and the Spring 2024 UGA Signature Lecture Series.

Join Mary Lou Brown for her talk on Monday, March 18th at 5:30 pm, as she examines how Vergil layers his reception of the Greek pastoral with the conversation between Pre- and Post-Alexandrian style of poetry, in order to break the mold of the Greek tradition to recast pastoral poetry into a contemporary conversation with his times.

Join us for the 8th Annual Undergraduate Conference on March 16th from 9am-4pm. Keynote speaker, Dr. Jennifer Gates-Foster from University of North Carolina will be speaking at 2:30pm in Park 265.