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In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.

Tyler Lansford is transforming the death of Julius Caesar into new life for Roman rhetoric. Audiences attending this summer’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival will see, hear and feel the resurrection.

Jackie Elliott, associate professor of classics at the ��«����Ƶ, has won a 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies, the nation’s top research recognition in classical languages & literature. Elliott was recognized for her book, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales. 

In the headlines, the words “humanities” and “crisis” are so commonly conjoined that you’d think that college courses on human thought, experience and creativity are collapsing like the Roman Empire. The story has more nuance than the headline, as the Classics Department illustrates.

A CU ��«����Ƶ classicist argues that the festival of Adonis was actually a “dissent and a critique of important cultural practices.”