Darryl A. Phillips

Classics Lecture on Tuesday, October 23

phillipsd — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:20:14 +0000

Careers for Classicists

phillipsd — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:18:59 +0000

An updated edition of the APA’s guide “Careers for Classicists” has just been published. The pamphlet is now available on the APA website. It is a helpful guide and should be required reading for all undergraduate Classics majors. It will help you answer that nagging question: “what will you be able to do with that?”

Classics Summer Courses for 2012

phillipsd — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:29:09 +0000

We have an excellent line-up of summer session courses this year. See the attached pdf flyer for details. Summer Classics 2012

Quintus Tullius Cicero featured on NPR!

phillipsd — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:27:26 +0000

This really is news! With all of the excitement about the presidential primaries, NPR did a story yesterday about Classics professor Philip Freeman’s new book “How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians.” Timeless advice provided by Quintus Tullius Cicero to his brother Marcus during his campaign for the consulship for 63 B.C.

A great interview, and an interesting book.

I’ve been working with this Latin text recently, both for my own research projects and in my classes (my CLAS 105 students read a translation of it last semester, and we’re reading it this semester in my Roman Political Culture course). One important point was left out of Prof. Freeman’s interview — recently Michael Alexander has argued in two powerful articles (published in Athenaeum) that this guide to electioneering was actually written as a satire of the campaign system. Basically, we should read this Latin text as if it had been written by Stephen Colbert. If you find Alexander’s case convincing, what then should we make of the modern politicians who find much of use in this ancient text?? Worth thinking about!

Gildersleeve Events at the College of Charleston

phillipsd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:43:34 +0000

Archaeology Lecture January 26

phillipsd — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:05:28 +0000

Join us at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 26 for a lecture by Dr. Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati, “The Roman Cult of the Right: Superstition in the (Re-)Shaping of Shop-fronts and Street Activity in the Roman World.” For more information, see the flyer below.

Ellis Flyer

Spring 2012 Classics Courses

phillipsd — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:48:48 +0000

The course schedule for Classics has now been posted for Spring 2012. See the link below for details.

121 Course Flyer–shf

Urban Dreams and Realities

phillipsd — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:43:18 +0000

Next week I’m off to Edmonton, Alberta, to take part in a conference on the city in the ancient world. It looks like an excellent line-up of talks — I’m excited to hear lots of interesting papers. You can visit the conference website by clicking on the piture above. I’ve heard lots of good things about Edmonton as well — I just hope it isn’t too cold for my very thin southern blood.

All Roads Lead to Rome, Very Soon for Some …

phillipsd — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:39:50 +0000

The new issue of College of Charleston Magazine features a profile of recent Classics graduate Melissa Huber. A great story. Melissa is heading off to pursue a Master’s at the University of Reading in their unique program on the history of the city of Rome. The program includes several months of work in Rome, based at the British School. Would that we were all heading off to England and Italy!!

A Modern Odyssey

phillipsd — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:17:27 +0000

With summer quickly coming to an end, it was fun to read about NYTimes travel writer Matt Gross’ modern-day odyssey. He wandered from Troy to Ithaka, and saw some beautiful sights along the way (and ate some pretty good food). Click on the map below to read his story.