Classical
Studies

About the Department

Dickinson’s Classical Studies department is dedicated to the study of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in all their aspects. With three full-time professors and one affiliated classical archaeologist, the department serves about 15 classics majors, 15 classical archaeology majors, 60-70 students learning ancient Greek and Latin, and others studying the literature and history of classical civilization in translation. There are two active student organizations, the Chimaera club and the honor society Eta Sigma Phi. The department also has a separate endowment from the Roberts family, used to fund the annual Roberts Lecture, to send students to study abroad in Greece and Italy, to provide teacher education workshops, and to fund excavation at Mycenae, Greece.

12th Annual Christopher Roberts Lecturer: Mary Beard, October 2nd and 3rd, 2009

Mary Beard (Newnham College, Cambridge) will give the 12th annual Roberts Lectures. (more)

Prof. R. Leon Fitts retires

R. Leon Fitts arrived at Dickinson as assistant professor of Classical Studies in 1972 and retired in 2008 as Asbury J. Clark Professor of Classical Studies. (more)

Meghan Reedy joins faculty as Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Prof. Reedy grew up in South Africa and received her D.Phil. from Oxford University. Her scholarly specialty is the Roman poet Propertius. (more)

College founds new department in Archaeology

The new department will include Prof. Christofilis Maggidis, Christopher Roberts Chair of Classical Archaeology, formerly affiliated with the classics department, and a new archaeologist specializing in the New World to be hired for fall 2009. (more)

Prof. Mastrangelo publishes book on Prudentius

 In early 2008 The Johns Hopkins University Press published The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the Soul. (more)

Prof. Francese publishes book on Roman life and language

 In late 2007 Hippocrene Press published Ancient Rome in So Many Words. (more)