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The Classics Department welcomed students for the first day of Fall semester classes last week. Pictured Dr. Harris's Medical Terminology class.

Welcome to new and returning UGA Classics Summer Institute students on the first day of classes for 2019! Dr. Peter O’Connell is teaching LATN 8020, Virgil, and Institute Director, Dr. John Nicholson, (pictured with students) is teaching Roman Epistles, LATN 6050. The Institute is designed for high school Latin teachers seeking to continue teaching while earning an M.A. degree over four consecutive summers.

UGA Classics Professors Christine Albright and Peter O'Connell at the UGA-Tennessee football game. Albright was recognized on the field as the 2017 winner of the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Outstanding teaching at UGA recognized Monday evening, April 16 at the 2018 Faculty Recognition Banquet. Award recipients (pictured here) include Classics MA Alumna Wendy Biddle, recipient of the Division of Academic Enhancement Innovative Teaching Award, Dr. Christine Albright, recipient of the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and Classics Alumna and PhD Candidate in Romance Languages, Julia Claire Hernandez, recipient of the UGA Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award.

Ovid's Metamorphoses

A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

From cover: The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid's epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods.

Strolling Through Florence

The Definitive Guide to the Renaissance City

From cover: Mario Erasmo is the author of several books on the cultural history of Italy including Strolling through Rome, Reading Death in Ancient Rome, and Death: Antiquity And Its Legacy with extensive experience teaching and leading tours throughout Italy, France, and the UK.

 

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