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Prof. Jessica Lamont's work on curse tablets featured in YaleNews

Professor Jessica Lamont was recently featured in a YaleNews article on a curse tablet held in the Beinecke’s collections. Read more about the tablet and Prof.

John Ma (Columbia University) to deliver the Seventeenth Annual Rostovtzeff Lecture

The Department of Classics at Yale is thrilled to share that John Ma, Professor of Classics at Columbia University, will deliver the Seventeenth Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at 5pm in LC 101.

The Eleventh Annual Adam and Anne Amory Parry Lecture

The Eleventh Annual Adam and Anne Amory Parry Lecture will feature Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford) and Tom Phillips (University of Manchester) in conversation, on the theme of “Muses and Models: Virgil, Spinoza, and Critical Theory.” The event will take place on Thursday, November 7, 2024, a

2024 Departmental Newsletter

The Classics Department’s 2024 newsletter is now available! Read all about what the department and its individual members have been up to over the past year. View a PDF version here.