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    <div class="html-content"><span>Dear Ancient Studies Majors,</span><div><br></div><div>It the season for advising and enrollment once again. Please email your advisor to set up a mutually convenient day and time for Fall 2025 advising. We would like you to complete this process by the time of your registration appointment. You can find the day and time of your registration appointment at <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/ancientstudies/posts/136578/1556f/886188c707ac1227fd949368a52e5aa0/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fregistrar.umbc.edu%2Fcalendars%2Fregistration-appointments%2F" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://registrar.umbc.edu/calendars/registration-appointments/</a>. Eligibility is based on the number of credit hours you have earned. The earliest day and time for registration is Apr. 1 at 9:30 am, if you have 130 credits or more.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>If your last name begins with the letters A-B, your advisor is Dr. Rosenbloom.</strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>If your last name begins with the letters F</strong><strong>-H, your advisor is Dr. Kutner. </strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>If you last name begins with the letters I-O, your advisor is Dr. Jones-Lewis.</strong></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>If your last name begins with the letters</strong><strong> P-W, your advisor is Prof. Phin.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><em><strong>Note: If you would prefer to stay with an advisor you have had in the past, you can contact that advisor instead of the one assigned to you by your last name.</strong></em></div><div><em><br></em></div></div>
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<Summary>Dear Ancient Studies Majors,    It the season for advising and enrollment once again. Please email your advisor to set up a mutually convenient day and time for Fall 2025 advising. We would like...</Summary>
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    <div class="html-content">Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University Research Institute in Washington, D.C., is hiring a Program Coordinator of Byzantine Studies. A B.A. in the Humanities is preferred and knowledge of ancient, medieval, or modern Greek is advantageous.<div><br></div><div>You can read the full job description at <a href="https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67773" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67773</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>For more about Dumbarton Oaks, go to <a href="https://www.doaks.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://www.doaks.org/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a great opportunity for UMBC ANCS majors and alumni and I encourage you to check it out.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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<Title>Join Us for Ancient Studies Week at UMBC!</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Dear members of the Ancient Studies Community,<div><br></div><div>Ancient Studies Week 2024 will take place during the week of Oct. 7-11.</div><div><br></div><div>The annual Homerathon kicks off the week on Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 10:00 am-6:00 pm at the <em>Forum</em><strong> </strong>in front of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. Come and hear the more than 80 readers of Homer's <em>Odyssey</em>.</div><div><br></div><div>On Wednesday Oct. 9 between 7:00 and 9:00 pm in Performing Arts and Humanities 234, Ancient Studies faculty and students are reading Aristophanes' <em>Assemblywomen</em>, a comedy in which women take control of Athens and collectivize the ownership of property, but their accommodation of an odd proposal from the city's old men leads to unexpected trouble. A few more readers are needed. Contact Dr. Rosenbloom (<a href="mailto:dsrose@umbc.edu">dsrose@umbc.edu</a>) if you would like to read a part. Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the event.</div><div><br></div><div>OnThursday Oct. 10 from 4:00-5:00 pm in the A.O. Kuhn Library Gallery, Professor Phillip Mitsis, Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization, Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Medieval and Renaissance Studies at New York University will deliver the Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture, "Plato on the Morality of Hate." A reception will follow in the Library Gallery.</div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div>Ancient artifacts from the Department's Spiro collection will be displayed on Main Street in the Commons from 1:30 to 3:30 pm on Friday, Oct. 11.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please see the attached flier.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div>We hope to see you all there!</div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div></div>
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<Title>RSVP for The Walters Field Trip!</Title>
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<Title>Readers Needed: Aristophanes' Assemblywomen</Title>
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