Celeste Connell ’26 Wins 2024 Dante Prize
Bard student Celeste Connell ’26 has won the 2024 Dante Prize, a longstanding award bestowed by the Dante Society of America for the best essay on the Italian poet Dante Alighieri by an undergraduate in the US or Canada. Connell, a junior in classical studies and literature at Bard, was awarded the prize for her essay “Lucan’s Exiles: Solitude and Moral Vision in the Commedia.”
James Romm on Thebes for Classical Wisdom Podcast
James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College, contributed a presentation on the Sacred Band of Thebes as part of a group discussion hosted by Classical Wisdom Speaks Podcast on the ancient Greek city state. Romm discusses the mythical and factual aspects of the the Sacred Band, a troop of select soldiers consisting solely of pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, in the aftermath of Thebes’s defeat of Sparta in the Battle of Leuctra. Read More >>Robert Cioffi Publishes an Essay on Newly Uncovered Euripides Papyrus in the London Review of Books
Bard Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi published his essay “Euripides Unbound” in the most recent issue of the London Review of Books (LRB). Alongside his essay, Cioffi appeared on the LRB Podcast to talk about the papyrus’s 2022 excavation from a cemetery in Philadelphia (Egypt) by archaeologist Heba Adly. Read More >>More Bard News
- Professor James Romm Reviews The Muse of History in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Stranger Love by Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Professor Thomas Bartscherer Among New York Times Best Classical Music Performances of 2023
- Bard Professor James Romm Receives $50,000 NEH Public Scholar Grant in Support of His Project Plato and the Tyrant
- F-Stop Magazine Interviews Photographer Emily Allen ’22
- Daniel Mendelsohn Receives One of France’s Highest Cultural Honors
- Bard College Professor Daniel Mendelsohn Wins Italy’s Prestigious 2022 Malaparte Prize