The 12th annual "Ghosts in Togas" lecture will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 18 in Albright Auditorium at 7:15 p.m. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Frederick Ahl of Cornell University will give a talk titled: "Laughter in the Hereafter."
Ahl's areas of research include Greek and Roman epic and drama, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome. He has published countless articles...
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The 11th annual "Ghosts in Togas" Halloween lecture will be held on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Sanford Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library. Assistant Professor Nicholas Gresens of the University of Rochester will give a lecture titled: "Now I Lamia Down to Sleep: Searching for the Stuff of Ancient Greek Nightmares." His lecture will be a fascinating exploration of what terrified th...
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With grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health, degrees from prestigious universities like Brown, Yale and Princeton, and participation in a wide range of community endeavors, eight HWS faculty members were recently granted tenure by the HWS Board of Trustees and given the rank of associate professor, effective July 1, 2010. Additionally, retired HWS librarian P...
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