Field Trips
The Classics department leads initiatives for undergraduate students to explore Chicago’s specific ties with antiquity, by attending performances, visiting museums, and exploring architecture.
Examples of upcoming and past field trips include:
Museum exhibits
- Pompeii: The Exhibition - Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago [Spring 2023]
- Spurlock Museum’s Ancient Mediterranean exhibit and Ancient Mediterranean Gallery at Kranner Art Museum – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [upcoming in Fall 2018]
- Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt – Block Museum [Winter 2018]
- Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in Contact – Field Museum [Fall 2017]
- The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great – Field Museum [Fall 2015]
- The Greek Monsters, exhibit by Beetroot – National Hellenic Museum – Chicago [Spring 2015]
- Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption – Field Museum [Fall 2005]
- Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art - Art Institute of Chicago [permanent exhibit]
Theatrical performances
- The Gospel at Colonus, Based on an adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Soulful and stirring, this one-of-a-kind theatrical event breathes new life into the Oedipus myth with a score of powerful gospel music artistic director Charles Newell - The Court Theater - Chicago [Spring 2023]
- The Aristophanesathon, Aristophanes’ 11 surviving comedies adapted into a four-hour mashup by Hypocrites artistic director Sean Graney – The Chopin Theater - Chicago [Spring 2018]
- Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by Nicholas Rudall and directed by Terry McCabe – City Lit Theater – Chicago [Spring 2018]
- The Trojan Women by Euripides, adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Ronald Duncan – Three Crows Theater – Chicago [Fall 2017]
- Agamemnon by Aeschylus, adapted by S. Scardifield – Northwestern [Winter 2017]
- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, presented by Promethean Theatre - Athenaeum Theater – Chicago [Winter 2017]
- Gilbert & Sullivan’s Thespis, Savoyaires' Mainstage Production directed by Dominic Missimi – Chute School Auditorium – Evanston [Fall 2016]
- Berlioz’s opera Les Troyens - Lyric Opera of Chicago [Fall 2016]
- All Our Tragic, all Greek tragedies adapted in a twelve-hour marathon by Hypocrites artistic director Sean Graney – The Den Theater – Chicago [Spring 2014]