Just as classics remains essential to the humanities, it continues to inform many important human endeavors and discussions. The successes and failures of Greco-Roman civilization challenge our emerging global culture to do better, while their art and literature still provide our aesthetic touchstone. Some of the links below offer practical resources for the study of classics. Others give interesting takes on art, design, and music, or explore contemporary political controversies. These often invite comparison with the social, economic, and ecological issues faced by the Greeks and Romans. Thanks for visiting our site--gratias tibi agimus! We hope you have the opportunity to study classics, now or in the future. It's all essential.
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major reqs: appian way, Rome, photo David Fredrick honors reqs: colosseum at night, Rome, photo David Fredrick minor reqs: markets of Trajan, Rome, photo David Fredrick grad admission reqs: pont du gard, France, photo J. Matthew Harrington grad M.A. reqs: arringatore, ---- grad Ph.D reqs: colosseum, Rome, photo J. Matthew Harrington.
ARHS courses: forum, Rome, photo David Fredrick
HIST courses: acropolis, Athens, photo J. Matthew
Harrington GREK courses: archaic torso (above)
LATN courses: lupercal priest, Rome, photo
from P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, p----.
classics links: compitalia altar, Rome, photo
from P. Zanker, The Power of Images, p--- political
links: ara pacis, Rome, photo from P. Zanker, The Power of Images,
p--- art links: various sources music
links: colosseum, Rome, photo David Fredrick U
of Arkansas links: university seal.
faculty portaits: Agrippina minor, Augustus,
Claudius, Faustina minor, Nero, Livia, Trajan, Vespasian, and Augustan period
imago from B. Andreae, -----
Levine: photo George Paulson Fredrick:
photo Nan Yarnell Day: photo Kirsten Day Garvin:
photo David Fredrick Paulson: photo George
Paulson.
music: Hesperion XX, il libre vermell; Romania
Gipsy Show, ballo romm; Yann Tiersen, le fabuleux destin d'Amelie; additional
guitars and mixing by David Fredrick.