WashU Classics

🎶✨ New digital collections from WashU Classics!

Explore over 800 images of ancient instruments and artwork, along with recordings of Greek and Latin texts read aloud by faculty and students.

These new databases—created in collaboration with the Humanities Digital Workshop—are now available on the Internet Archive. Dive into the sounds and sights of the ancient Mediterranean world!

🔗 Explore the collection: https://archive.org/details/WashUDepartmentofClassics

Huge congratulations to Classics major Nicole Spangler on being named a Beinecke Scholar! 🎉 As a rising senior in Classics and History, Nicole is the first WashU student to receive this prestigious award since 2014—supporting her future PhD studies and continued research. We’re so proud of her accomplishments and can’t wait to see what’s next! 📚✨

A new digital resource is live! 📊📚 WashU Classics and the Humanities Digital Workshop have launched Meters of Greek Drama, an online database exploring the metrical patterns of Euripides’ plays. Explore the project and discover ancient drama in a new way.

Learn more: https://classics.washu.edu/news/new-digital-database-greek-dramatic-meters-released-washu-classics-and-humanities-digital

📷️ Chorus members dancing to an aulos-player's music. Depicted on a terracotta hydria (water jar) in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Virgil to Missouri farm life 🌾📜

We’re thrilled to see Kate Wilson’s course featured in The Ampersand! By bringing students out of the classroom and into rural Missouri, this class shows how ancient poetry comes alive through lived experience.

👉 Read the story:

Harvesting the Classics: Students connect ancient poetry with Missouri farm life Kate Wilson took her Virgilian poetry class to rural Missouri, using hands-on examples of local farm life to help students better understand the classical world.