Department of Classics - Northwestern University

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Welcome to Classics, the study of the cultural output of ancient Greece and Rome and its worldwide reception.

Professor Marianne Hopman's class, Literatures of the Ancient World "Love Scripts: From Sappho to Taylor Swift" was featured in the Daily Northwestern. Click here to read more!

Classics students visited the replica of the Athenian Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee! Read the full story here.

Faculty Spotlight

Assistant Professor Sarah Eisen (PhD Harvard University) joins our faculty this year. Click here to learn more.

Classicizing Chicago

From the late 1800s, Chicagoans from all walks of life and with widely varying measures of familiarity with the classical sources have found elements of the ancient past useful for making meaningful contributions to their own struggles and ventures. The Classicizing Chicago Project is building a digital archive of examples of this cultural mingling across time and space.

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Professor Sarah Eisen delivered a paper at the Classical Association Conference held at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Congratulations to Professor Abbe Walker on her appointment as a Searle Fellow for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year by the Northwestern Office of the Provost and the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching.

The annual Classics Expo & Awards Ceremony was held on June 6. Congratulations to all of the presenters and award winners!

Professor Taco Terpstra co-organized an "Ancient Economies" conference with the Department of Economics.

Professor Francesca Tataranni contributed a translation of an inscription to the Art Institute of Chicago’s current "Myth & Marble" Exhibit.

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