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Emily Greenwood, Yale University, speaks to Classics faculty & students at Wake Forest

Emily Greenwood, Chair and Professor of Classics at Yale University, gave a talk on Wednesday about death and remembrance in Classical and Afro-Caribbean literature.  Whereas in ancient Greece and Rome, elite dead were commemorated primarily through stone monuments and not through the physical bones themselves, […]


Student Karen Gusmer Wins Award for Best Paper at Eta Sigma Phi National Convention

Karen Gusmer, President of Beta Iota chapter at Wake Forest, is majoring in Classical Languages: Latin. She represented the chapter very well at the national convention this past weekend at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.  In addition to meeting both legendary professors, Groton and May, […]


Dr. Patrice Rankine Speaks at Wake Forest University

Professor Patrice Rankine gave a talk on Classics and white supremacy, for a crowd of more than 40, the largest on record for a Wake Forest Classics event.  His February 7th talk was titled “Caught in the Act: The Classics, White Supremacy, and the Search for […]


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