Demonstrating a fusion of two languages, a scholar and his students are combining computer code with classical Greek to create a language-learning app that will help Classics students practice accentuation—a key dimension of ancient Greek.
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She aims to shed fresh light on the literary connections between Ovid and Homer, who lived nearly a thousand years before the Roman poet, and who may well have been several different people!
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Computer science meets archaeology as classics scholar James Higginbotham and academic technology consultant Paul Benham discuss their project to “restore” the color to an ancient Assyrian stone relief.
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From Sicily to Silicon Valley, from the Big Apple to the Big Easy, students traveled broadly over spring break on a variety of trips, some of them academic in nature, some cultural, and some service-oriented, but all aimed at enhancing their experience beyond the classroom.
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art will display this mask, which was created for a mummy, in its new show, AEGYPTUS: Egypt in the Greco-Roman World. The Feb. 2-July 15 exhibition explores Egypt in the time of the Greeks and Romans.
Read moreThe Greek and Roman classics have always been a vital part of Bowdoin's liberal arts tradition. The Department of Classics offers a major with three concentrations: 1) Greek and Latin language 2) Greek and Roman material culture (classical archaeology), 3) Greek and Roman culture and history (classical studies).
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Technology Adds Color to Ancient Artifact