Classical Studies 

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Classics Wikipedia entry.

Ancient Egypt Wikipedia entry.

Ancient Greece Wikipedia entry

Ancient Rome Wikipedia entry.

The Classics faculty of the Department of French, Classics, and Italian teaches courses and conducts specialized research in the languages, literatures, and social institutions of ancient Greece and Rome. The study of Greek and Roman civilization, an enduring intellectual tradition that extends over more than two millennia, remains a challenging and enriching experience in itself. Moreover, the attempt to understand and appreciate classical antiquity by means of a variety of modern methodologies and disciplines necessarily informs our understanding and appreciation of contemporary society and culture.

Carl A. Anderson (Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Special research and teaching interests : Greek literature, Greek comedy, ancient religion, Greek and Roman society.
Publications: AthenaÕs Epithets: Their Stuctural Significance in Plays of Aristophanes (Teubner 1995); articles in American Journal of Philology, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigrafik.
Note: on leave Spring and Fall 2009
Campus address : Michigan State University, 215 Old Horticulture, East Lansing, MI 48824-1112
E-mail: ander100@msu.edu
Phone : (517) 884-6306

Denise A. Demetriou (Ph.D., John Hopkins University). (adjunct, Dept. of History).
Special research and teaching interests : Archaic Greece; Greek Cultural History.
Publications : Kypris : an exploration of Aphrodite's roles and worship in the historic past and present of Cyprus, Amherst College B.A. Thesis, 1998; Negotiating identity : Greek emporia in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press (PH.D. Dissertation), 2005
Campus address: Michigan State University, 329 Morrill Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1036
E-mail: demetri1@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 432-8222, Ext. 125

Jon Frey (PhD, University of California, Berkeley).
Joint appointment in both Arts and Classics
Special research and teaching interests : Identity in Late Antiquity, Early Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Late Roman Archaeology.
Campus Address: Michigan State University, 212 Old Horticulture, East Lansing, MI 48824-1112
E-mail: freyjona@msu.edu Phone: (517) 884-6303

John Rauk (Ph.D., University of Michigan).
Special research and teaching interests : Latin literature, Homer, Augustan poetry, literary criticism, Roman law.
Publications: articles in Classical Philology, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Greek-Roman-Byzantine Studies, Phoenix.
Campus address : Michigan State University, 214 Old Horticulture, East Lansing, MI 48824-1112
E-mail : rauk@msu.edu
Phone : (517) 884-6305
Web link : https://www.msu.edu/~rauk/

William Blake Tyrrell (Ph.D., University of Washington).
Special research and teaching interests : Mythology, Greek tragedy, women in Greek and Roman society.
Publications: Amazons: A Study in Athenian Mythmaking (Baltimore & London, 1984), Athenian Myths & Institutions, with Frieda S. Brown (Oxford 1991), numerous scholarly articles.
Campus address : Michigan State University, 216 Old Horticulture, East Lansing, MI 48824-1112
E-mail : tyrrell@msu.edu
Phone : (517) 884-6307
Web link: https://www.msu.edu/~tyrrell/

Anna Kirkwood-Graham (Ph.D., University of Toronto). (Visiting Assistant Professor)
Special research and teaching interests : Medieval Latin, Paleography.
E-mail: grahama9@msu.edu

Affiliated faculty:

 Christopher Frilingos (Ph.D. Univ. of N. Carolina) (Appointment in Dept. of Religious Studies).
Special research and teaching interests : Early Christianity; Pagans, Christians, and Jews: Religious Identity in the Ancient World
Campus address : Michigan State University, 116 Morrill Hall, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
E-mail: frilingo@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-2930
Web link : https://www.msu.edu/user/frilingo/

Debra Nails (Ph.D. University of the Witwatersrand). (Appointment in Dept. of Philosophy)
Special research and teaching interests : Greek and Early Modern Philosophy, Ethics
Publications : Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Hellenic Studies Series 22 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). Ed. with J. H. Lesher and Frisbee C. C. Sheffield. xii + 446 pp.; The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics (Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 2002), xlviii + 414 pp.; Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy. Philosophical Studies Series 63 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), xxii + 264 pp.
Campus address : Michigan State University, 518 South Kedzie Hall, East Lansing , MI 48824-1032
E-mail: nails@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 381-4494
Web link : https://www.msu.edu/~nails/

 Matthew Richard Zinman
Zinman and other James Madison College faculty introduce their students to Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War as a classic work on international relations.
Campus address : 321 S. Case Hall, E. Lansing, MI 48825-1210
E-mail : zinmanm@msu.edu
Phone : (517) 353-9396

Undergraduate Major In Classical Studies
Latin Minor
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American Classical League : The American Classical League was founded in 1919 for the purpose of fostering the study of classical languages in the United States and Canada. Membership is open to any person who is committed to the preservation and advancement of our classical inheritance from Greece and Rome.  The League includes teachers of Latin, Greek, and Classics on elementary, secondary, and college levels. The League is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2009.

American Philological Association : founded in 1869 by "professors, friends, and patrons of linguistic science," the APA is now the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) : North America's oldest and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology with over 200,000 members belonging to more than 100 local AIA societies in the United States, Canada, and overseas, united by a shared passion for archaeology and its role in furthering human knowledge.

Classical Association of the Middle West and South : CAMWS was founded at the University of Chicago in 1905 and incorporated in the State of Missouri on July 13, 1948.  Its members (c. 1500) are primarily college and university professors, K-12 teachers, and graduate students whose specialty is Classics:  Classical languages (Greek and Latin) and the world of ancient Greece and Rome. CAMWS publishes a quarterly, The Classical Journal (ISSN 0009-8353; circulation c. 2300), and a Newsletter (published three times a year).  The Annual Meeting of CAMWS takes place in the spring, traditionally the week after Easter.