Classics Library
We’ve reopened!
The staff of the Art History/Classics Library are delighted to open our doors once more following nearly 18 months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Students, faculty, and researchers are already consulting books in our reading rooms, and classes have returned to our seminar rooms. We invite our users to visit us and take advantage of all of our resources, and wish everyone a successful fall semester!
Accessing Classics Publications during COVID-19
The Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the ways in which many users access publications for research in Classics and related fields. The UC Berkeley Library, and other institutions worldwide, offer options to allow users to reach many of these essential materials; for the latest information see the Classics Library Guide.
Prints from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection Now on Display in the Art History/Classics Library
We are delighted to announce that a new exhibition of art borrowed from the Library’s Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) is now on display in the hallway of the Art History/Classics Library. Amongst a number of noteworthy prints you will find a 16th C. view of Rome’s Palatine Hill from the workshop of the Antwerp-based Hieronymus Cock, a 19th C. landscape by renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige Ando, one of Chagall’s many depictions of “lovers”, one of Le Corbusier’s La main ouverte (Open Hand) lithographs, and the serigraph Untitled, Trees with Mattress by Carrie Mae Weems. Please come and see them for yourself!
UC Berkeley Classics Collections Welcomes Back Students and Faculty
We are glad to welcome our Classics and AHMA students and faculty back from their summer travels, and wish them success as the 2018-2019 academic year begins. Please note that the Art History/Classics Library has extended its opening hours on Fridays, and is now accessible until 7 p.m.
UC Berkeley Classics Collections Congratulates our 2018 Graduating Students
We wish bright journeys to the 2018 graduates of the Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art programs. Congratulations!
With the conclusion of the academic year, the Art History/Classics Library has begun observing its summer hours: Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UC Berkeley Library Classics book on display in Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World at the Legion of Honor
We are proud to have helped bring text and image together through the loan of the Art History/Classics Library’s copy of Edward Dodwell’s A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806 to Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World, an exhibition at the Legion of Honor.
Volume one of Dodwell’s important book, which provides some of the earliest modern documentation of Greece’s archaeological remains, is displayed opened to page 322, which offers the author’s account of the removal of the Parthenon’s marbles by Lord Elgin in 1801. In Dodwell’s own words, “Some drawings which I made on the spot, before as well as after that event, shew the objects which have been taken away or destroyed, and the lamentable contrast between the present and the former appearance of those venerable and glorious monuments of antiquity.”
A watercolor by Dodwell and painter Simone Pomardi depicting the same event is presented beside the book, and the entirety of the room’s walls are dedicated to other illustrations by the traveling pair.
A classical and topographical tour through Greece may be read in its entirety at Internet Archive (vol. one, vol. two). Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World will remain on exhibition at the Legion of Honor through Jan. 7, 2018.
UC Berkeley Classics Collections Congratulates our 2017 Graduating Students
We raise our drinking cups as we celebrate the 2017 graduates of the Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art programs. Congratulations!
With the conclusion of the academic year, the Art History/Classics Library has begun observing its summer hours: Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Art History/Classics Library Spring Break Hours
We wish our Classics community a pleasant Spring Break wherever their travels may take them.
The Art History/Classics Library’s Spring Break hours are as follows:
Saturday, March 25th & Sunday, March 26th: Closed
Monday, March 27th through Thursday, March 30th : 1-5pm
Friday, March 31st through Sunday, April 2nd: Closed
Regular library hours resume Monday, April 3rd.
Beware the Ides of March!
Beware the Ides of March! As we remember the day that saw the assassination of Rome’s dictator perpetuo, UC Berkeley Classics Collections brings you a selection of five recent books on Julius Caesar.
Der Gallische Krieg : Geschichte und Täuschung in Caesars Meisterwerk
By Markus Schauer
München : C.H. Beck, [2016]
Loeb Classical Library, Early Greek Philosophy
We are pleased to have received Loeb Classical Library’s nine new volumes entitled «Early Greek Philosophy». Continue reading “Loeb Classical Library, Early Greek Philosophy”