News & Events Welcome to the Classics Department news page. On this site you will find the latest information on lectures, events and news items in the Spotlight Departmental Awards 2005-06 Spring 2006 Picnic Photos Spring 2006 Graduation Photos New Appointment in Greek Literature - Dr.Jonas Grethlein Fall 2005 Party Photos upcoming Lectures Tuesday, November 7, 2006 “The Workings of a Mycenaean State” 4 PM, McCune Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities & Social Sciences Building Professor Cynthia Shelmerdine University of Texas, Austin Dr. Shelmerdine is the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Acting Chair of the Classics Department. Her main research interests are in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology, and Mycenaean Greek language, history and society. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, Cambridge University and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Classical Philology, 1977). In the 1990s she was a co-director of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, and is currently working with the Iklaina Archaeological Project as ceramic and historical expert. She is editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age and author of some thirty publications on Mycenaean culture. >>More Monday, November 20, 2006 "The Twilight of the Gods of Ancient Sicily" 4 PM, McCune Conference Room, HSSB Room 6020. Professor Ian Morris, Stanford University Recent Lectures The J.P. Sullivan Lecture in Classics