Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, published a book titled Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris.

Students and faculty in the Classics Department participated in the 8th annual Parilia conference, held this year at Colgate University.  Each year the Classics Departments from Hamilton, Colgate, Skidmore and Union Colleges come together in late April (close to the date of Rome's birthday, said to be April 21) for an undergraduate research conference.  Three students from each of the four schools give papers at this day-long conference; after each paper there is lively conversation.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, presented a paper on March 24 during the Women as Classical Scholars Conference at King’s College in London.

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was an invited speaker on March 9 at the Brock University Archaeological Society’s Scholarly Symposium “Classics in Education: Ancient and Modern.” Her talk was titled “Academic Activism: Teaching Classics at Marcy Correctional Facility.”

Denise Eileen McCoskey, associate professor of classics and an affiliate in black world studies at Miami University of Ohio, will deliver a lecture titled “Race Matters: Re-Casting Identity Among the Greeks and Romans,” on Thursday, March 14, at 4 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Taylor Science Center.  Her lecture is sponsored by Hamilton’s Classics department and is free and open to the public.

Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics and chair of the Program in the Ancient World at Princeton University, will present the Winslow Lecture titled “The End of Sacrifice,” on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  His lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton Classics Department and is free and open to the public.

Although they are sometimes hard to see through the smog and light pollution, the stars illuminate the night sky as they have for millions of years. While many of us enjoy driving out on country roads to admire the star-studded landscape of the night, few can look into the heavens and see thousands of years of human history like Anthony Aveni can.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, was the outside examiner on a dissertation for a Ph.D. candidate in University of Toronto classics department.

Anthony F. Aveni, the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University, will present the Winslow Classics Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 4 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Aveni’s lecture, titled "Scientific Astronomy in Hesiod? The Roots of Prehistoric Star Gazing," is free and open to the public.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the meeting of the American Philological Association (APA) Jan. 3-6 in Seattle. The annual gathering of educators and scholars is the main meeting for classicists.