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Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association, held in Albuquerque, N.M. on Feb. 10. The paper, “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World,” was given at a panel Rubino chaired on "Alternate Takes: Greek Mythology in Science Fiction and Fantasy."

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was interviewed for the Livescience.com Web site for a story titled "Valentines in Ancient Rome Were All About Pain" (2/14/10). "Unlike what you see in contemporary stores where we have valentines that are all clouds and dreamy and romantic, the Romans had a very different kind of take on love," said Gold, "It's not something that is a good feeling usually; it's something that torments you."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells published two poems in the Summer/Fall 2009 issue of The Spoon River Poetry Review. The poems, “Illinois Ilissos” and “Migration,” are from Bicycle, a collection of poetry that Wells is currently writing.

Shelley P. Haley, professor of classics and Africana studies, will present a talk titled “Cleopatra: From African Queen to Liz Taylor,” on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Other Side in Utica. This is the sixth event in the Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells will discuss “‘Are you the bee or just a stinging story?’: Maurice Manning’s Bucolics and Poetic Representations of God in a Secular Age,” on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s classroom 3024. The lecture, the fifth in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.

James Wells, visiting assistant professor of classics, has published a book, Pindar's Verbal Art, An Ethnographic Study of Epinician Style (Harvard University Press, February, 2010).

Mary-Kay Gamel, a professor of classics and theatre at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present the Winslow Classics Lecture at Hamilton on Monday, Feb. 1, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium (Science Center). Her lecture, titled “Revising ‘Authenticity’ In Staging Ancient Drama,” is free and open to the public.

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, recently traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the 5th Biennial International Congress on the Philosophical, Epistemological, and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory. At the invitation of the organizers, he offered, together with Alicia Juarrero and Robert Ulanowicz, a preconference course on “Auto-organization, Complexity, and Wonder.” The title of his presentation there was "Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells recently published a translation of an ancient Greek poem by Pindar (518–438 BCE) in The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (W.W. Norton & Company). Wells contributed Pindar's Pythian 12. This publication ties in with a book contract Wells has with Duckworth Publishing for a translation of Pindar's victory songs, The Songs of Pindar.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells recently published two translations in the literary journal The Connecticut Review, Fall 2009, Vol. XXXI No. 2. The translations are titled "Olympian 14" and "Pythian 7," composed originally in ancient Greek by Pindar.