Eta Sigma Phi

Learn more about the Classics honorary society for students of Latin and/or Greek.
Dr. Harry Avery is the faculty advisor for Eta Sigma Phi. We sincerely thank him for all the years of guidance and wisdom he has generously given.

 

Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science

This graduate program is joinly offered by the departments of Classics, Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science.  Learn more about the Program in Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science (CPAS).

 

Archaeological Institute of America, Pittsburgh Chapter

Dr. Edwin D. Floyd is President of the Pittsburgh Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). The University is host to several yearly lectures of international scholars. Read about forthcoming lectures here.

 

news

 

CONGRATULATIONS -

To Dr. Andrew M. Miller, Professor of Classics who is celebrating 35 years of service and scholarship with the University of Pittsburgh.  Thank you Dr. Miller, nulli secundus.  In your many years of teaching you have instilled upon your students to respice, adspice, prospice.  We wish you well in all your future endeavors.

 

Lorraine Keeler, a Classics Minor, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior. This is a very distinguished honor, achieved by only 15 or so students each year, and is awarded on the basis of high scholarly attainment and breadth of distribution in Liberal Arts courses at Pitt.

 

Sean Rigby, a Classics Minor, has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa Class of 2012.  Our best wishes for this commendable honor!

 

Dr. Nicholas Jones was an editor of Brill's New Jacoby. This book, a new edition of Felix Jacoby's "Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker", provides in electronic format a new Greek text, with English translation and commentary, of the voluminous remains of the nearly 900 fragmentary Greek historians, plus new material not treated by Jacoby. 

 

Edwin D. Floyd has mentored two undergraduate students in their research through the Office of Experential Learning.

Tamara Fritz conducted her research titled Early Recognition and Modern Edmendations in Homer (read abstract here). Elizabeth Marriott completed her research project titled “Disguise and Advice in Les Aventures de Télémaque” (read abstract here ).

The Office of Experiential Learning connects Arts and Sciences undergraduates with opportunities to earn credits outside the classroom by engaging in internships, research, and teaching. It places students in “hands-on” activities that are tied to current coursework, and encourages them to reflect on and analyze their experiences in an academic context.

 

 

ALUMNI NEWS- Constance M. Carroll, PhD 1996, chancellor of the San Diego Community College District, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the National Council on the Humanities.

The 26-member council is an advisory panel to the National Endowment for the Humanities, a grant-making arm of government with a $160 million budget.

Carroll was nominated by President Barack Obama for the post in December and again in January after the new Congress was seated. She was confirmed by the Senate Thursday.

“The vetting process, which took about a year, the nomination, and now the confirmation have culminated in a wonderful opportunity for national service,” Carroll wrote.

Members serve for six-year terms. The panel plans to meet three times in 2011, with its first meeting set for July 14.

The humanities are defined as the study of history, literature, languages, philosophy, religion and related disciplines. The council reviews grant applications and makes recommendations to the endowment’s chairman. It also weighs in on endowment programs and policies.

“The disciplines of the humanities and the projects associated with them are directed toward understanding the meaning of human life, ethical and moral issues and the diverse cultural landscape all of us inhabit,” Carroll said in an email to board members and friends.

Carroll has a doctorate in classics from the University of Pittsburgh and has been chancellor of the college district since 2004. She has served on the boards of the American Council on Education, the California Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities Panel on Museums and Historical Societies.

 

The department extends it's congratulations to Dr. Carroll on this esteemed and well deserved honor.

 

 

Study Abroad has some interesting information for Classics majors and the opportunities that exist to enhance their interest in learning and culture. Learn more about the study abroad opportunities for students in Classics. You may also stop by the department for a study abroad brochure.
New for Summer 2012- Pitt in Greece Program!

Pitt in the Aegean (Greece/Cyprus) 2127

5-week, 9 credit sociology program to Greece and Cyprus Summer 2012! Open to all majors. Applications accepted on a rolling basis until 3/16/12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

Apply online or contact Elizabeth Conforti, our department administrator, for more information.

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Classics
1518 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
[P] 412-624-4493
[F] 412-624-4419

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Lectures and Symposia:

 

Classics Graduation Recognition Ceremony and Dinner, April 28, 2012

Classics Graduation Recognition Dinner, Gold Room at the University Club, April 28, 2012

 

"Natural Goals of Actions in Aristotle"  

 

Hendrik Lorenz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

 

I argue that there are, according to Aristotle, two importantly different kinds of goals or ends in the domain of agency, and that one of these two kinds has been frequently, though not universally, overlooked. Apart from psychological goals, goals that agents adopt as their purposes, there are also, I submit, goals or ends that actions have by being the kinds of actions they are. Those latter goals belong to suitable actions whether or not agents adopt them as purposes, and whether or not agents are aware of them.

Friday, April 27, 2012
2:00 p.m., Cathdedral of Learning 244B

Sponsored by the Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science

 

 

 

 

"Phaeacian Therapy and the Returning Veteran in Homer's Odyssey"   

 

William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

The Phaeacians, the fairy-tale society in the Odyssey that takes in strangers and ships them home, have come in for criticism in recent decades from scholars who have regarded them as “unfriendly,” mere entertainment seekers, shallow aesthetes, and worst of all, incompetent hosts. I will argue that Phaeacia functions as a half-way house that provides athletic and psychological therapy to rehabilitate the destitute veteran, Odysseus.

Friday, April 20, 2012
3:00 p.m., Venue TBA

Contact Liz Conforti, elc3@pitt.edu, (412-624-4494) for further information on this event.

 

 

 

conference/lecture news

 

Andrew Korzeniewski has been accepted to present his paper "On the Positive Merit of the Body: Dante’s Commedia and Aeneid 6" at a two-day international conference to be held at the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze Lettere e Arti, Mantua, Italy, 15-16 October 2012

 

Topher Kurfess, graduate student, presented his paper "Verity's Intrepid Heart: The Variants in Parmenides, DK B1.29 (and 8.4) at the Third Biennial Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies which was held in Merida, Mexico on January 9-13, 2012.

 

Dr. Mae Smethurst will present a paper at Columbia University on October 28-29, 2011.  The conference, Performing Tragic identity Through a Non-Western Lens, is sponsored by the Onassis Foundation, USA

 

Kelvin Yang , (A&S, Classics, Philosophy and Political Science '12) has been invited to present his paper "Identity and the Changing Definition of Self in the Stoic Oikeisis" at the Cornell University Undergraduate Ancient Philosophy Conference On October 15-16, 2011. 

 

Nicholas Thorne, graduate student, presented his paper "Justice and Power: The Attack on Plataea-Thuc. ii 2-6" at Dalhousie University on May 10, 2011.

 

At the University of Toronto, in February of this year, Dr. Mae Smethurst gave a public lecture on the performance of the Antigone, directed by Miyagi in Japan, and a seminar for graduate students and faculty on the comparison of noh and Greek tragedy .

 

Dr. Mae Smethurst, presented a paper at the Association of Asian Studies and International Convention of Asian Scholars in Honolulu, this past April, 2011.  She presented it along with Dr. Richard Smethurst on the role of the artist of noh, Tsukioka Kõgyo, in helping to revive interest in noh at the turn inot the 20th century. ³Tsukioka Kõgyo and the Popularization of Noh².

 

Dr. Edwin D. Floyd presented his paper "Homeric and Koine Greek in Odyssean Criticism" at the International Linguistics Association Conference at Rutgers University, New Bruswick, New Jersey on April 15, 2011. An abstract of Dr. Floyd's paper is here.

 

Dr. Erin O'Bryan, presented her paper at Boston University on March 26, 2011. The topic of the conference is "Quis Spectatores Spectabit:  Voyeurism and Spectatorship in Antiquity" .

 

Andrew Korzeniewski has presented his paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the United Kingdom, April 15-18, 2011 in Durham, England. An abstract of Andrew's paper is here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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