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Another Mac Classics Award

Congratulations to Jose Campos (Classics '12) for receiving honourable mention in the Classical Association of Canada's Margaret H. Thompson Prize in Greek Sight Translation.

http://cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb17/ccb17_08.html

Congratulations to Mac Students and Faculty

Congratulations to Classics faculty member Dr. Daniel McLean, who received the McMaster Student Union's Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities 2010-2011.

Two Mac Classics undergraduates were also recognized with research awards:

Ms. Kaitlyn Moniz (Classics '12) was awarded the Togo Salmon Travel Fellowship for Summer 2011. She intends to use the fellowship to travel to Athens, Delphi and Olympia to study Greek architectural sculpture.

Mr. Owen Philips (Classics '13) received an Undergraduate Student Research Award for Summer 2011. Working under the direction of Prof. Martin Beckmann, his research project is an archaeological and architectural study focusing on the design and function of porticos in gymnasia in Roman Asia Minor. He will use the opportunity provided by the USRA to conduct original research that will complement his archaeological fieldwork at Nysa on the Meander River in Turkey.

Classics students were prominent in the Humanities Essay Competition for Term I 2010/2011:

Ms. Katarina Benusova (Art and Art History '12, Classics minor) was awarded First place for Level III with her paper, "Women in Aphrodisian Sculpture" written for Dr. Ian Lockey's Classics 3B03:Topics in Classical Archaeology: the Archaeology of Aphrodisias.

Level I was swept by students in Dr. McLean's Classics 1B03: Introduction to Ancient Myth and Literature. First prize was awarded to Ms. Megan Thornton for "What to Expect from a Homeric Hero" and second to Ms. Callie Diebold, "Interactions between Gods and Heroes in Homer's Iliad."

Congratulations to all!

More information on Humanities scholarships can be found here: http://registrar.mcmaster.ca/CALENDAR/current/pg1174.h

On the USRA: http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/awards/usra.html

Upcoming Events in the Department of Classics

Upcoming events in the dept. of Classics:

Thursday 3 February 2011 – Prof. Margriet Haagsma, (Dept. of Classics and History, University of Alberta CAC Speaker) “The archaeology of daily life: some thoughts on how ‑ and why ‑ to excavate Classical and Hellenistic houses”

TSH 719, Reception at 4:00 pm

Tuesday 8 February 2011 – Prof. Jarrett Welsh (Dept. of Classics, University of Toronto), “The Status of Roman Comedy at the End of the Second Century BCE"

TSH 701, Reception at 4:00 pm

Thursday 3 March 2011 – Prof. Fanny Dolansky (Dept. of Classics, Brock University), The Family Under Fire: A Study of the Rape Narratives in Ovid, Fasti 2”

TSH 701 Reception at 4:00 pm

Tuesday15 March 2011 – Prof. Harriet Flower (Dept. of Classics, Princeton University, E.T. Salmon Visiting Professor) “Political Rhetoric and Local Communication in 133 BC”

Location TBA