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Recent News

Christopher B. Krebs will present the George B. Walsh Memorial Lecture at The University of Chicago. He will also give a presentation in the Seminar on Rhetoric and Poetics on the following topic: Rhetoric And Poetics: Re(Reading And Re(Writing) The TLL: Select Thoughts On Carptim.
Teddy Ganea, Stanford Classics undergrad, has written this article published in Stanford News!
In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour.

Upcoming Events

February
12
Date
Wednesday, February 12, 2025. 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
370

Over the thirteenth century, a prolonged struggle over buildings and land played out in the center of the small Umbrian town of Città di Castello…

February
28
Date
Friday, February 28, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location
Building 110
450 Jane Stanford Way Building 110, Stanford, CA 94305
112

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Was Nero the perverted, eccentric, immoral, cruel, and possibly insane autocrat? Was he an astute populist…

April
25
Date
Friday, April 25, 2025 - Saturday, April 26, 2025. All day
Location
Building 110

Our focus is analyzing the patterns of thought which built systemic biases and inequalities in the Greek and Roman world, what allowed them to…

Recent Publications

John Tennant
2025
Lucy Chae, Lena Cavicchia, Fiona Clunan, Sadie Sarkisian, Thane Brueschke, Yanny Gao, Robert Muniz, Marco Widodo, Sophia Wu
2024