What's Happening

CLST MA Alumni Reflect on their Time at Columbia

Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 12:00am - Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 11:59pm

Announcement

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

Friday, November 8, 2024 - 11:00am - Friday, November 8, 2024 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power: Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire

Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:00am - Friday, October 4, 2024 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CLST Faculty John Ma Publishes New Book: "Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity"

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - 12:00am - Wednesday, September 18, 2024 - 11:59pm

Announcement

Congratulations to Mary-Evelyn Farrior on Successfully Defending her Dissertation!

Thursday, September 5, 2024 - 12:00am - Thursday, September 5, 2024 - 11:59pm

Announcement

Congratulations to Giovanni Lovisetto on Successfully Defending his Dissertation!

Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 12:00pm

Announcement

The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens

Friday, April 5, 2024 - 11:00am - Friday, April 5, 2024 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

The Barnard/Columbia Ancient Drama Group presents Mangled House

Friday, March 29, 2024 - 08:00pm - Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 04:00pm

Event

Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology

Friday, February 23, 2024 - 11:00am - Friday, February 23, 2024 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CLST Alum Evan Jewell Appointed Classical Summer School Director

Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 12:00am - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 12:00pm

Announcement

CLST Faculty Katharina Volk Publishes in and Edits the Collection 'Nigidius Figulus: Roman Polymath'

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 - 12:00am

Announcement

CLST Doctoral Candidate Ayelet Wenger Publishes Article in the Jewish Quarterly Review

Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:00am - Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:00pm

Announcement

CLST Doctoral Candidate Susan Rahyab Publishes Chapter in Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

Friday, December 8, 2023 - 12:00am

Announcement

Phoenicians among Others: Why Migrants Mattered in the Ancient Mediterranean

Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:00am - Friday, November 10, 2023 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Celebrating Recent Work by Ellen Morris

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 06:15pm - Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 07:30pm

Event

In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece

Friday, October 6, 2023 - 11:00am - Friday, October 6, 2023 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CLST Chair Dr. Ellen Morris Publishes New Book: "Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt"

Monday, July 10, 2023 - 12:00am

Announcement

Italics: Italian poetry in America

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 09:30am - Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 05:30pm

Conference

Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - 12:00pm

Announcement

Abigail Breuker Awarded SWIP-NYC Graduate Essay Prize

Monday, May 15, 2023 - 12:00am

Announcement

A Roman World? Imperial Power and Provincial Communities

Friday, April 28, 2023 - 09:00am - Friday, April 28, 2023 - 06:45pm

Conference

Mary-Evelyn Farrior Awarded Rome Prize

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 12:00am

Announcement

Lodge Papyrology Fellowship Publication Party

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 04:00pm - Friday, April 21, 2023 - 05:30pm

Event

Domesticating Empire

Friday, April 14, 2023 - 11:00am - Friday, April 14, 2023 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Competing Cultures: Greek Legacy, Roman Culture, and the Cosmopolitan Identity within the Athletic Association of Imperial Rome

Friday, March 24, 2023 - 11:00am - Friday, March 24, 2023 - 01:00pm

Lecture

The Seleucid Paradox: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Late-Hellenistic Sidon and Tyre

Friday, February 17, 2023 - 04:10pm - Friday, February 17, 2023 - 06:00pm

Lecture

Calling Philosophers Names

Friday, February 3, 2023 - 11:00am - Friday, February 3, 2023 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CLST Faculty Richard A. Billows Publishes New Book: 'The Spear, The Scroll, and The Pebble'

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 - 08:00am

Announcement

Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 11:00am - Friday, November 18, 2022 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome

Friday, October 28, 2022 - 11:00am - Friday, October 28, 2022 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CLST MA CANDIDATE JORDI ALONSO IS A FEATURED POET IN THE BANYAN REVIEW

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 08:00am

Announcement

PROFESSORS DEBBIE STEINER & KATHARINA VOLK WIN GOODWIN AWARD

Monday, September 19, 2022 - 08:00am

Announcement

CLST Alum Evan Jewell awarded Rome Prize

Friday, May 6, 2022 - 11:58am - Friday, May 6, 2022 - 11:58am

Announcement

University Seminars in Classical Civilization: Emilia Barbiero, New York University

Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 07:30pm - Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 08:30pm

Event

CLST DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES DR. JOSEPH HOWLEY AWARDED THE 2022 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FACULTY MENTORING AWARD

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 04:46pm - Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 04:46pm

Announcement

University Seminars in Classical Civilization: Timothy Rood, University of Oxford (England, UK)

Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 07:30pm - Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 08:30pm

Event

University Seminars in Classical Civilization: Ellen Oliensis, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 07:30pm - Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 08:30pm

Event

University Seminars in Classical Civilization Sailakshmi Ramgopaul, Columbia University

Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 07:30pm - Thursday, January 20, 2022 - 08:30pm

Event

Heyman Center: Celebrating Recent Work by Katharina Volk

Thursday, December 2, 2021 - 06:15pm - Thursday, December 2, 2021 - 08:30pm

Event

Why does Aristotle ascribe a notion of matter to his predecessors? On matter in Metaphysics A

Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 10:10am - Thursday, November 18, 2021 - 11:25am

Workshop

University Seminars in Classical Civilization: Prof. Carolina López-Ruiz, Ohio State University

Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 07:30pm - Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 08:30pm

Event

CLST DOCTORAL CANDIDATE TAL ISH-SHALOM PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN THE JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES

Monday, September 13, 2021 - 09:00am

Announcement

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy

Friday, April 16, 2021 - 11:00am - Friday, April 16, 2021 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Void and Space in the Thought of the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle

Friday, October 30, 2020 - 11:00am - Friday, October 30, 2020 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Statement of Solidarity

Friday, June 19, 2020 - 09:00am

Announcement

CLST Placement Workshop

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 02:00pm - Friday, March 6, 2020 - 04:00pm

Workshop

Two questions about the rule of Law in Plato

Friday, November 15, 2019 - 11:00am - Friday, November 15, 2019 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

The Open Sea

Friday, October 18, 2019 - 11:00am - Friday, October 18, 2019 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Being and Seeming: Plato’s Epistemology

Monday, October 7, 2019 - 07:30pm - Monday, October 7, 2019 - 10:00pm

Workshop

CLST Photo Contest: Call for Submissions

Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 09:00am

Announcement

CLST STUDENT MENTORING PROGRAM: 2019-20 MENTORS SELECTED

Thursday, August 29, 2019 - 09:00am

Announcement

Classics Colloquium: Joseph Howley

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 04:10pm - Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Graduate Traveling Seminar to Egypt

Sunday, May 26, 2019 - 09:30am - Sunday, June 9, 2019 - 09:30am

Event

Plautus and Popular Comedy

Friday, April 26, 2019 - 11:00am - Friday, April 26, 2019 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Workshop in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy: Pyrrhonian Skepticism as a Way of Life

Monday, April 22, 2019 - 10:00am - Monday, April 22, 2019 - 12:00pm

Workshop

Margarete Bieber Reading Group

Friday, April 19, 2019 - 06:00pm - Friday, April 19, 2019 - 08:00pm

Workshop

Classics Colloquium: Aaron Seider

Friday, April 19, 2019 - 04:10pm - Friday, April 19, 2019 - 05:30pm

Lecture

USem in Classical Civilization: Campbell Grey

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 07:30pm - Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 09:00pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Zoe Stamatopoulou

Friday, April 12, 2019 - 04:10pm - Friday, April 12, 2019 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Columbia Workshop of Etruscan Art

Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 06:00pm - Friday, April 12, 2019 - 06:30pm

Workshop

Jeremy Simmons Awarded Rome Prize

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 05:30pm

Announcement

CAM Talk: Robert Rollinger

Friday, April 5, 2019 - 11:00am - Friday, April 5, 2019 - 01:00pm

Lecture

OVIDIVS PHILOSOPHVS: An International Conference on Philosophy in Ovid and Ovid as a Philosopher

Friday, March 29, 2019 - 10:00am - Saturday, March 30, 2019 - 07:00pm

Conference

USem in Classical Civilization: Roy Gibson

Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 07:30pm - Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 09:00pm

Lecture

Workshop in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy: Vicious Character Traits as Rational Mistakes

Monday, March 25, 2019 - 10:00am - Monday, March 25, 2019 - 12:00pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Victoria Rimell

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 04:10pm - Friday, March 15, 2019 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Pirro Ligorio's Worlds: Antiquarianism, Classical Erudition, and the Visual Arts in the Late Renaissance

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 06:00pm

Workshop

CAM Talk: Kathryn Howley

Friday, March 8, 2019 - 11:00am - Friday, March 8, 2019 - 01:00pm

Lecture

The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity

Friday, March 1, 2019 - 11:00am - Friday, March 1, 2019 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

USem in Classical Civilization: Lucia Athanassaki

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 07:30pm - Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 09:00pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Ashley Simone

Friday, February 15, 2019 - 04:10pm - Friday, February 15, 2019 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Alice Sharpless Awarded the Bothmer Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Friday, February 8, 2019 - 03:15pm

Announcement

Classics Colloquium: Peter Struck

Friday, February 1, 2019 - 04:10pm - Friday, February 1, 2019 - 05:30pm

Lecture

USem in Classical Civilization: Dhananjay Jagannathan

Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 07:30pm - Thursday, January 24, 2019 - 09:00pm

Lecture

Application Deadline for PhD Admissions

Friday, December 14, 2018 - 11:45pm

Announcement

Classics Colloquium: Helene Foley

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 04:10pm - Friday, December 7, 2018 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Celia Campbell

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 04:10pm - Friday, November 30, 2018 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Barbara Vinck

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 04:10pm - Friday, November 16, 2018 - 05:30pm

Lecture

USem in Classical Civilization: Victoria Wohl

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 07:30pm - Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 09:00pm

Lecture

Classical Greek Oligarchy

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, November 9, 2018 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CAM Talk: Paraskevi Martzavou

Friday, November 2, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, November 2, 2018 - 01:00pm

Lecture

Conference in Memory of Alan Cameron

Friday, October 26, 2018 - 10:00am - Saturday, October 27, 2018 - 04:00pm

Conference

Classics Colloquium: Sarah Blake

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 04:10pm - Friday, October 19, 2018 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Ways of Seeing, Ways of Reading II: The Anthropology and Aesthetics of Arms and Armor

Friday, October 19, 2018 - 09:00am - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - 05:00pm

Workshop

USem in Classical Civilization: Leah Whittington

Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 07:30pm

Lecture

CAM Talk: Sasha-Mae Eccleston

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, October 12, 2018 - 01:00pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Nikolaos Papazarkadas

Friday, October 5, 2018 - 04:10pm - Friday, October 5, 2018 - 05:30pm

Lecture

Ancient Eudaimonism and Modern Morality

Friday, September 28, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, September 28, 2018 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

CAM Talk: Dimitri Van Limbergen

Friday, September 21, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, September 21, 2018 - 01:00pm

Lecture

USem in Classical Civilization: Jeri Debrohun

Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 07:30pm - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 09:00pm

Lecture

Classics Colloquium: Katherine Hsu

Friday, September 7, 2018 - 04:10pm - Friday, September 7, 2018 - 05:30pm

Lecture

CLST Welcome Lunch

Friday, August 31, 2018 - 01:00pm - Friday, August 31, 2018 - 02:00pm

Event

CLST Student Mentoring Program: 2018-19 Mentors Selected

Thursday, August 30, 2018 - 09:00am

Announcement

Munich New York City Workshop in Ethics

Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 10:00am - Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 05:30pm

Workshop

Evan Jewell Awarded Mellon International Travel Fellowship

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 11:00am

Announcement

Columbia at Hadrian’s Villa: The 2017 Campaign

Monday, April 23, 2018 - 05:00pm - Monday, April 23, 2018 - 07:00pm

Lecture

Virgilian Geopoetics, or the Emotional Science of Geography

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, April 13, 2018 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Jeremy Simmons Awarded AIIS and SSRC Fellowships

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 11:00am

Announcement

Mariana Noé Receives 2018 Presidential Teaching Award

Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 04:30pm

Announcement

Classical Studies Dissertation Workshop

Friday, March 23, 2018 - 03:00pm - Friday, March 23, 2018 - 06:00pm

Workshop

Office and Rule in Constitutional Change

Friday, March 2, 2018 - 11:00am - Friday, March 2, 2018 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

The Creation of Roman History and Epigraphy: Theodor Mommsen from 1817 to 2017

Saturday, December 9, 2017 - 02:30pm - Saturday, December 9, 2017 - 10:15pm

Conference

Tyrannicide in Ancient Greece

Friday, November 17, 2017 - 02:00pm - Friday, November 17, 2017 - 04:00pm

Classical Dialogue

The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Friday, October 20, 2017 - 11:00am - Friday, October 20, 2017 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Giulia Bonasio Awarded Chateaubriand Fellowship

Monday, June 5, 2017 - 06:00pm

Announcement

Agreement and Consensus in Plato’s Crito

Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 08:15pm - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 09:30pm

Lecture

Human and Animal Bodies in Ancient Greece

Friday, March 24, 2017 - 11:00am - Friday, March 24, 2017 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Columbia University at Hadrian’s Villa: The 2016 Archaeological Campaign

Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 06:00pm - Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 08:00pm

Lecture

Refuge and Refugees in the Ancient World

Friday, November 11, 2016 - 02:30pm - Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 11:15pm

Conference

Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus

Friday, October 28, 2016 - 01:30pm - Saturday, October 29, 2016 - 10:00pm

Conference

Networks Colonization, and Regional Hybridity

Friday, October 28, 2016 - 11:00am - Friday, October 28, 2016 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Aristophanes and Politics

Friday, September 30, 2016 - 01:00pm - Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 01:00pm

Conference

Two Classic Problems in the Stoic Theory of Time

Friday, April 15, 2016 - 11:00am - Friday, April 15, 2016 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Hellenistic Literatures in Context

Saturday, April 9, 2016 - 09:00am - Saturday, April 9, 2016 - 05:00pm

Workshop

Stoics and Skeptics on Cataleptic Impressions

Friday, February 19, 2016 - 11:00am - Friday, February 19, 2016 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Killing Mummies: On Inka Epistemology and Imperial Power

Friday, December 4, 2015 - 09:00am - Friday, December 4, 2015 - 11:00am

Classical Dialogue

Columbia's Archaeological Campaign at Hadrian's Villa (APAHA Tibur 2015)

Friday, November 13, 2015 - 09:00pm - Friday, November 13, 2015 - 10:30pm

Lecture

Inaugural Classical Philosophy Lecture: Aristotle on Productive Understanding and Completeness, by Ursula Coope, Corpus Christi College Oxford

Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 08:15pm - Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 09:30pm

Lecture

Columbia Classical Studies Photo Award 2015

Sunday, August 30, 2015 - 09:00am

Event

Giulia Bonasio Awarded DAAD Fellowship

Friday, August 14, 2015 - 06:00pm

Announcement

Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome

Friday, April 10, 2015 - 11:00am - Friday, April 10, 2015 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Natural Character

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 02:00pm - Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 04:00pm

Classical Dialogue

The Divinization of Caesar and Augustus

Friday, October 17, 2014 - 11:00am - Friday, October 17, 2014 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Columbia Global Class at Hadrian’s Villa

Sunday, June 1, 2014 - 09:00am

Event

Miskawayh on Pleasures and Pains

Friday, March 14, 2014 - 09:00am - Friday, March 14, 2014 - 11:00am

Classical Dialogue

Ancient Theories of Color

Friday, March 7, 2014 - 11:00am - Friday, March 7, 2014 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

Living Like the Emperors: A Tour to Imperial Residences and Villas in Rome and Latium

Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 06:00pm

Event

Technology and Skills Workshop II: Researching Ancient Places

Friday, April 19, 2013 - 07:00pm - Friday, April 19, 2013 - 09:00pm

Workshop

The Ancient Middle Classes

Friday, February 1, 2013 - 11:00am - Friday, February 1, 2013 - 01:00pm

Classical Dialogue

APAHA Excavation at Stabiae 2012

Monday, June 18, 2012 - 08:00am - Saturday, July 14, 2012 - 06:00pm

Event

Technology and Skills

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 08:00pm - Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:00pm

Workshop

The Many Worlds of the Odyssey

Friday, September 9, 2011 - 03:30pm - Friday, September 9, 2011 - 10:30pm

Conference

Aqueduct and 6th century BCE layers discovered at Villa San Marco in Stabiae

Monday, June 20, 2011 - 09:00am - Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 06:00pm

Event

APAHA Excavation at Stabiae 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 09:00am - Monday, August 15, 2011 - 05:00pm

Event

2014-2019: Excavations and Research at Hadrian's Villa

Global Class

2013: A Tour to Imperial Residences and Villas in Rome and Latium

Global Class

2011-12: APAHA Excavations at Stabiae

Global Class

Hadrian's Villa: A Photo Journal

Global Class

2019: CAM Graduate Traveling Seminar to Egypt

Global Class

Columbia Classical Studies Photo Award 2014

Event

Workshop in Ancient & Contemporary Philosophy

Workshop

Apply Now for Admission to the Classical Studies M.A. Program

Event

Cataloging the Epigraphic Squeeze Collection at Columbia

Event

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Event