Classical Studies
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1235
Faculty and students in the Department of Classical Studies engage with some of the most profound and exciting thinkers and writers of the Western tradition. The department offers BA and PhD programs in specializations including Classical Civilization, Classics and Religion, Classics and Philosophy, Latin, and Ancient and Modern Greek. Undergraduate concentrators have the opportunity to reside in the Classics House, a Bay State Road brownstone.
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Department chair: Stephen Scully
Campus address: 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 414
Phone: 617-353-2427
Fax: 617-353-1610
Website: www.bu.edu/classics
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Introduction: pluralized voices in women's travel writing
(Ilex Foundation, 2022)This chapter surveys recent approaches to travel and mobility, women's writing, and the study of travel literature in languages beyond English. -
Gothic travel in Northanger Abbey
(ILEX Foundation, 2022)This book chapter explores the relevance of travel literature for understanding Jane Austen's posthumously published novel 'Northanger Abbey'. The novel was shaped by the fashion for 'Gothic travel', a mode of travel ... -
Egnatius the Epicurean: the banalization of philosophy in Catullus
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021)This article offers a new examination of the place of philosophy in Catullus’ Carmina. It focuses on Egnatius, the ‘smiling Spaniard’ of poems 37 and 39, and argues that Catullus’ attacks on this character make use of many ... -
Sunshine and Matricide: Dionysus and the Electra plays
Ancient Greek drama is often discussed in isolation from the fifth-century Athenian Theater of Dionysus, where for the most part it was first produced, and commonly without regard for the religion and rites of Dionysus, ... -
Toxic Eucharist
The eating of deity as flesh and blood is the ritual that characterizes the Christian Mass, although denominational dogma is divided between the real or substantial presence. It is supposedly a commemoration of the Last ... -
Horace Walpole, gothic classicism, and the aesthetics of collection
(2018)Scholars of eighteenth-century literature have long seen the development of the Gothic as a break from neoclassical aesthetics, but this article posits a more complex engagement with classical imitation at the origins ... -
Archias the good immigrant
(University of California Press, 2020-11-01)Cicero's Pro Archia has historically been taken as a bona fide expression of humanism. In this article, I demonstrate how this reading of the Pro Archia has allowed the political and cultural tensions in the speech to ... -
The margins of satire: Suetonius, satura, and scholarly outsiders in ancient Rome
(Project Muse, 2020)Scholars have long been interested in Suetonius' De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus for the evidence it preserves of the history of education and philology at Rome. This article focuses on a different aspect of the work: its ... -
How we write plagues
(JSTOR, 2020)
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