It is with the greatest pleasure that we send our wishes and bid farewell to the graduating class (June 2011) of Classics concentrators. We wish you all the best with future endeavours and adventures. To all of our wonderful graduates ~ GRATULAMUR VOBIS ~ ~ We also would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to the outgoing Departmental Student Council and applaud them on a job well done. The Classics DSC has distinguished themselves over the past couple of years with many well-planned events such as hosting a talk (Dr.

JOHN WILLIAM GEYSSEN, BA’85, MA’87, died June 4 in Fredericton, NB. Survived by his wife, Margaret, and children Sean and Rebecca. After receiving his PhD from Duke University, NC, in 1992, John began teaching Classics at UNB. Popular with students both inside and outside the classroom, he received the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award in 2000 and the UNB Student Union Teaching Excellence Merit Award in 2008. Perhaps his greatest benefit to the Department was his long-standing service, sympathetic and adroit, as undergraduate advisor.

On March 24th, 2011, the Classics Department was honoured to host a visit by Professor and Mrs. Christos Doumas.  Professor Doumas gave a lecture entitled "Akrotiri: A Cosmopolitan Bronze Age Harbour Town in the Mediterranean" to Dr. Fabio Colivicchi's CLST 129 archaeology class. 

An article by Professor emeritus Ross Kilpatrick has gone viral after being featured on Queen's homepage, Queen's e-bulletin, Queen's News Centre and

Student volunteers from the Department of Classics and the Archaeology Club were busy processing finds from the 2010 Humayma Excavation Project this past week. Processing of faunal remains (animal and fish bones and shells) will continue once a week throughout the term. For more information contact Professor B. Reeves.

Congratulations to all of our graduating students at this year's Spring convocation. Well done, graduates!! Best of luck with all future endeavours, from all of your Professors and staff in the Department of Classics.

I am very grateful to the American Schools of Oriental Research for awarding me a Platt Fellowship in 2009. The fellowship contributed towards my costs in participating in a pottery study season for the Humayma Excavation Project. I was an Assistant Director at Humayma from 1998-2005 (while Dr. John Oleson was Director), and took over as the Director for new Nabatean and Roman period excavations in 2008.

See the Photo Gallery!

Aeschylus' Agamemnon
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
MacGillivray-Brown Hall (218 Barrie Street) Admission to this event is FREE so please join us for an interesting and educational afternoon that is sure to be a lot of fun!

Terence's Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law)
Monday, March 29th, 2010
6:30 PM
Clark Hall Pub above the Campus Bookstore