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Honors students will perform Sophocles’ tragedy “Electra” next Tuesday and Wednesday for the Shackouls Honors College’s Classical Week.

Monmouth College has received a $175,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help teachers instruct students about everyday life in ancient Greece.

The difference between Spartan women and those of other civilizations? Independent, educated, strong and outspoken, the greatest honor was to serve the state, not men.

Monmouth College has received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help U.S. teachers instruct their students about everyday life in ancient Greece. The grant was the brainchild of Monmouth classics professor Bob Simmons and Louisiana high school classics teacher Nathalie Roy. The NEH grant will fund Simmons’ and Roy’s application […]

Nov. 18 gathering will honor late scholar

New program brings classics to today's students

<strong>Other lives</strong>: Classical scholar and archaeologist whose studies revolutionised understanding of the rural economy of Greece

Supporters insists it is a living subject that broadens cultural understanding and educational horizons

Nineteen years ago, on February 9, 2004, this country lost a great public servant and a fine human being who was blessed with a full life and good health for 91 years which he enjoyed right to the end. Those who knew, or knew of V L Wirasinha – (Uncle Victor to us, the close […]

Mathias Hanses, Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs Endowed Fellow in the Humanities and associate professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies and African studies at Penn State, was recently elected to serve as the president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. His one-year term began Jan. 1.