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Episkopi Bamboula Archaeologicla Excavation Project Begins its Eighth Field Season
The Bamboula Project began in 2001 and has recently announced its new and informative website. Goals of the excavation are to trace the process of change at the end of the Bronze Age before the beginning of the Iron Age in Cyprus and to assess the interaction between the site and the interior of the island during the Bronze Age.

Bringing the Classics to Life for Young Students Goal for New Outreach Series
Teachers and their students from throughout the region have a new resource to draw upon when studying ancient societies – expertise from one of the world's most well-known Classics departments. UC Classics faculty and graduate students are available to visit classrooms to share some of the most fascinating aspects of their research.
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UC Team Pinpoints Site of Archaic Temple
Without even excavating, University of Cincinnati archaeologists aided Albanian colleagues by pinpointing the site of an Archaic Temple from the ancient Greek colony of Epidamnus.
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80th Anniversary of Mediterranean Archaeology at UC
On Sunday February 15, 2004, the Department of Classics celebrated 80 years of archaeology in the Mediterranean with a lecture series and open house. In attendance were the President of UC, Nancy Zimpher, the Deans of Arts and Sciences and the Libraries, Karen Gould and Victoria Montavon, as well as the Semple trustees. More information can be found about the event at http://classics.uc.edu/resources/anniv.html.

Fortuitous Fellow: Classics Prof Wins Four Awards
Four full-year fellowships would be a big feather in the cap for any professor over the course of a long career. For William Johnson of UC’s classics department, that feather sprouts even taller. He won four fellowships all at once, for the 2003-04 academic year.
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Midea CD wins Bronze Medal at New York Art Directors Club Competition
UC Classics Professor Gisela Walberg (Marion Rawson Chair of Aegean Prehistory) along with UC Architcture Professor, have won a Bronze Medal at this year's New York Art Directors Club Competition (international participation) for their CD-ROM "The Dirt on Midea." This is one of the world's most prestigious design competitions. This CD-ROM has already won the Chris Award from the Columbus International Film and Video Festival.

Posidippus Conference
The Posidippus Conference has its own web site at http://classics.uc.edu/posidippus.html

William Johnson wins Gildersleeve Prize
University of Cincinnati classics professor William Johnson has won the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Prize for best article of the year in American Journal of Philology ("Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity," AJP 121 (2000) 593-627).

Kathryn Gutzwiller wins APA Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
University of Cincinnati classics professor Kathryn Gutzwiller's book about the briefest form of Greek poetry has earned her the top award for scholarship given by her classical studies peers.
The 2,700-member American Philological Association presented its Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit to Gutzwiller on Jan. 5 in San Diego. The prize recognizes her scholarly work, "Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context," which was published by the University of California Press in 1998. The annual award salutes an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship published by a member of the association in the last three years.

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