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Amphora (c. 560-550 BC) depicts death of Ismene following Mimnermus F 21 W

On  Thursday 15 November 2012 at 5 PM, the Seminar Room of the the Rutgers Classics Department (Ruth Adams Building 003, Douglass Campus) will be the setting for what promises to be a lecture of unusual interest. Richard L. Hunter (38th Regius Professor of Greek in Cambridge University, and Fellow of its Trinity College) will present on “One Verse of Mimnermus? Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy”.  Continue reading →

While we have a little lull in RU Classics news…You gotta hand it to de Lisle Guitar Co. of picturesque Zionsville Indiana, just eight miles northwest of Indianapolis. When de Lisle wanted to unleash its monster 23-watt, single 12” speaker hand-wired tube guitar amplifier on an unsuspecting world—an amp that would blow away the traditional market leader in its class, the venerable Fender Princeton Reverb—it providentially christened it….the Rutgers Reverb. Continue reading →

On 6 November 1869—143 years ago to this date—Rutgers hosted Princeton in the first-ever football game between two collegiate institutions, making Rutgers the birthplace of college football.

The game took place on a Saturday afternoon (3 PM kickoff) in a field along College Avenue in New Brunswick, now occupied by the gym affectionately known as “The Barn”. There a fired-up crowd of about 100 saw Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4. The rules were primitive, there were 25 players to a side, and the only equipment was the ball. And oh yeah—the Rutgers students caused a stir by showing up wearing the same color, namely scarlet. Continue reading →

Alas, the venerable Institut Ausonius thought of this great image first

This coming Thursday (8 November 2012) at 4 PM  the Rutgers Classics Graduate Student Association and the RU Department of Classics welcome Dr. Grégory Bonnin (Université Michel de Montaigne—Bordeaux 3 & the Institut Ausonius). He will be speaking on the topic of the Aegean islands under Athenian hegemony in a lecture entitled, “Is the Athenian Empire Controlling the Market? Megara and Melos at the Heart of Athenian Economic Ambitions.”

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Before the power, lights and internet went out here in central NJ thanks to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, the RU Classics Weblog was engaged in a two-part meditation on all the great things Classics can do for your career, with features on the Rutgers undergraduate major and then some impressive but not unexpected outcomes.

But then—as if on cue—a new blog launched itself in the UK on 1 November wholly devoted to the question that we raised in our Part 2, namely: what Classics-educated folks have gone global? Continue reading →

It won Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) a Nobel Prize in Literature…

In our last post, the fall 2012 Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) undergraduate Major Fair gave occasion for us to reflect on what makes studying Classics at RU so worthwhile.

“Classics is the ‘classic’ humanities major”, explained the department’s Undergraduate Director, Professor Leah Kronenberg, in an in-depth interview. “It still has the reputation of being a hard and impressive course of study, but our students quickly learn the truth about Classics: it’s really fun!”

But what can it do for your career? There is an awful lot to say here. But for a start, a glance at some of the successful folks who have received an undergraduate Classics degree suggests that there is a planet of possibilities and really no limitations. Continue reading →

Are you going to be there? It’s time once again for the Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) Major Fair. It all goes down at the Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room, on College Avenue campus. And when? Wednesday 24 October from 1:00 – 4:00pm.  Classics Undergraduate Director Professor Leah Kronenberg—who is interviewed below in this post—will be there throughout to answer your questions.

Here’s an inside tip. It’s not just for majors. The SAS Major Fair offers information for majors, minors, certificates, and careers.  And here’s how it works. Students speak with representatives of academic departments and programs, student services offices, and a variety of Rutgers Schools and Colleges by visiting their tables at the fair. Continue reading →

Decorative detail from the 1621 Chouet edition of Sextus Empiricus 

The Rutgers Classics Graduate Student Association is pleased to invite the world to the third installment of its 2012/3 lecture series. It takes place this Thursday 25 October 2012 at 6:00 pm in the Douglass Campus Center, Meeting Room E.

The speaker is Professor Richard Bett of Johns Hopkins University, whose lecture is entitled “The Pyrrhonist’s Dilemma: What to Write if You Have Nothing to Say.” It concerns Sextus Empiricus and methods of writing. You can find a version of this paper on “the Pyrrhonist’s Dilemma” on Professor Bett’s website. Continue reading →

RU undergraduates…want to meet up with fellow ancient history enthusiasts?
Interested in Romans and Greeks, history and myth, language and literature? Well, your one stop is the Rutgers Classics Club. The Facebook group is here.

With movie nights, field trips, and loads of fun events all year long, membership in the Classics Club offers some of the most happening experiences available on the Banks.

Take for instance this coming Tuesday night, October 23rd. It’s the Rutgers Classics Club 2nd Annual Coffee House. Last year’s November inaugural Coffee House event was a super-smash, and preliminary indications are that this year’s will take it to the next level. It all goes down Tuesday night in beautiful Scott Hall (Room 105) on the Rutgers College Avenue campus, starting at 9.10 PM. Continue reading →

The answer is TRUE, if you are talking about Garret Augustus Hobart (1844-1899), Vice President of the United States under William McKinley.

Hobart, who graduated with the Rutgers College class of 1863 at the precocious age of nineteen, served as Vice President from 4 March 1897 until his untimely death in office on 21 November 1899, at just 55 years of age.

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