Undergraduate
Announcing Our New Department Name
In January of 2020 the faculty of Classics voted to change the name of our department. As of August 2021, we are the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies (DAGRS). Our undergraduate classes can be found in the online class schedule under AGRS (so, not Classics 10A but AGRS 10A).
We believe our new name communicates more clearly and unambiguously what it is that we study and teach, and we hope it will make our department more visible and accessible to the UC Berkeley community and the world beyond.
Featured Courses
Fall 2022
Yesenia Brambila
The first semester of study of Ancient Greek
Fall 2022
Susanna Faas-Bush
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
Fall 2022
Lauren Nguyen
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
Fall 2022
Zhengyuan Zhang
The first half of a two-semester language sequence equipping students to read and translate Classical Latin.
Fall 2022
J. Theodore Pena
A broad survey of the remains of the ancient towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, considering we can employ this evidence to illuminate the social, political, and economic life of these two communities.
News
Kim Shelton's Book, Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area, was in late spring 2022. This book at long last publishes results of 19th and mid-twentieth-century excavations in the Cult Center of Late Bronze Age Mycenae.
Tony Long's latest book, Plotinus, Ennead II.4 On Matter, has just been published by Parmenides Publishing. His recent books on Seneca and Epictetus have also just come out in Korean, Japanese, and Arabic translations. Congratulations, Tony!
Bloomsbury Academic is producing a podcast about the volume Queer Euripides, co-edited by DAGRS faculty member Mario Telò. Listen to the first episode here.
Events
Sep
17
2022
We will be gathering to celebrate the life and achievements of Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Emeritus W. S. “Bill” Anderson.
Sep
29
2022
The first in the Sather lecture series of Prof. Greg Woolf, “The Rhythms of Rome: Seasonality and Society in the Early Empire”
Oct
6
2022
The second lecture in the Fall 2022 Sather Lecture Series with Dr. Greg Woolf, “The Rhythms of Rome: Seasonality and Society in the Early Empire.”
Oct
13
2022
The third lecture in the Fall 2022 Sather Lecture Series with Dr. Greg Woolf, “The Rhythms of Rome: Seasonality and Society in the Early Empire.”
Oct
27
2022
The fourth lecture in the Fall 2022 Sather Lecture Series with Dr. Greg Woolf, “The Rhythms of Rome: Seasonality and Society in the Early Empire.”