{"id":213,"date":"2018-04-21T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/classicalstudies\/?p=213"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:30:26","slug":"dickinson-college-classical-studies-department-hosts-classics-honor-societys-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/classicalstudies\/2018\/04\/21\/dickinson-college-classical-studies-department-hosts-classics-honor-societys-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinson College Classical Studies Department Hosts Classics Honor Society’s National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-posted from the main Dickinson College website here,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0April 11, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Four students from three colleges and universities presented papers during the Eta Sigma Phi national conference hosted at Dickinson College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dickinson College’s\u00a0Department of Classical Studies<\/a>\u00a0recently explored\u00a0everything from the\u00a0Hercules cycle to\u00a0Caesar and the Battle of Alesia during the national conference of the Eta Sigma Phi classics honor society. Hosted on campus\u2014and attended by nearly 100 undergraduates and 15 faculty members from across the country\u2014the three-day annual conference featured competitions, presentations and an\u00a0exploration of\u00a0the\u00a0Trout Gallery<\/a>‘s classical collections.<\/p>\n

In her opening remarks, President Margee Ensign posited that the vast growth in classical scholarship over the past half century is a sign of the strength of the\u00a0liberal arts<\/a>\u00a0as well as the foundation upon which Dickinson was built.<\/p>\n

“Enlightenment intellectuals [like Benjamin Rush] who led our revolution and the creation of our new nation knew that the writers of Greece and Rome had thought and written so deeply and carefully about the\u00a0polis<\/em>(city-state) and about\u00a0civitas<\/em>\u00a0(citizenship), had examined and explored those issues of morality, of psychology and of community, of civic responsibility and governance, which continue to engage and perplex us to this day,” she said.\u00a0“It is no accident that the study of classical languages and literatures have been continuously taught at Dickinson over its entire history.”<\/p>\n

The conference, organized by\u00a0Assistant Professor of Classical Studies\u00a0Scott Farrington<\/a>, opened with a quiz-bowl style contest through which teams from various colleges put their knowledge of classical studies to the test in Allison Hall’s Great Room. Next, research took center stage, with student presentations:<\/p>\n