The Classics Department offers frequent opportunities to travel and study
with our professors. Please click on the links below to learn more.
Kenchreai, Greece
Omrit, Israel
Rome, Italy
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Mission
Classics is the critical
study of languages, cultures, and literature of the ancient
world. The societies of ancient Greece
and Rome, the Mediterranean
world, the Middle East, and cultures with faces toward the
Orient are the terrain of Classics. Many of our traditions rest
upon the world of the
Greeks and Romans. Greek, Latin, and Hebrew literature are
studied in the Classics Department. (More)
Upcoming
events and news
 The
first issue of our department's on-line journal, "Studies
in Mediterranean Antiquity and Classics" is availabe online.
The journal was created by students in the class, Studies in Classical
Civilization.
Approximately
twenty students traveled to Greece in January 2007
with Prof.
Michael Nelson for the "January in Greece" class.
Read
the Macalester
News report about the
2006 excavation season in Omrit.
To see many photos and some video from the dig
in Omrit visit
Zachary
Teicher's Omrit web site.
Read
our on-line newsletter to
find out about our upcoming events and read Classics
news. Recent news includes an exciting announcement
about Professor Rife's
large-scale excavations in ancient Kenchreai,
Greece and the January
2006 in Turkey trip, also featured in the Fall
2006 Macalester
Now.
Excavations
at Omrit
Excavations at Omrit are along the Northern Israeli border. The Macalester College
Classics Department, under the direction of Professor Andy Overman, leads archaeological
excavations at Omrit in northern Israel. Omrit is the site of a Roman temple.
Macalester is the only institution that has access to this site. Each summer,
a group of students, staff, professors, alumni, and friends travel to Israel
to work at Omrit.
The
Kenchreai Cemetery Project
Professor Joe Rife of the Macalester Classics Department directs an interdisciplinary
archaeological research and educational program at Kenchreai, the eastern port
of Corinth, in southern Greece. Every summer a team of Macalester students joins
an international staff of experts in artifacts, wall-painting, human and animal
bones, art history, geology, and GIS to study a major cemetery of Roman date
(1st-7th centuries C.E.) situated next to one of the busiest ancient harbors
in southeastern Europe. By studying the remains of death at Kenchreai, students
and researchers together discover the complexities of life in a provincial Roman
port-town.
Classics
Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul,
MN 55105
Office: Old Main, room 311, Email: pitman@macalester.edu
Telephone(651) 696-6376, Fax (651) 696-6498
CLASSICS OFFICE HOURS
September 1 through May 31, Weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
June 1 through August 31, Tuesdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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