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Torch: U.S. · Spring 2024 · CLASSICS DAY VI AT MONMOUTH COLLEGE

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The Monmouth College Classics Department carried out its sixth Classics Day on Saturday, September 30, 2023. The event included more than fifty different stations, demonstrations, and performances—nearly all of them interactive—that sought to illuminate the global classical world and its contemporary reflections for the 300 or so contributors and visitors from the Monmouth campus, the area, and K-12 schools and colleges/universities throughout the region.  While eight students in the Monmouth Classics Day Leadership class and Classics professor Bob Holschuh Simmons were the main planners, coordinators, and executors of the event, eighty or so Monmouth students, alumni, faculty and staff members, visitors from other schools and organizations, and community members helped put it on as well.

Classes, clubs, organizations, and individuals from Monmouth and throughout the region offered up interactive options for all ages and interests, among them the following:

The full program of events is available here. A host of pictures of this year’s event, taken by Emilee Renwick and Duane Bonifer of the Office of College Communications and Marketing, are available here, and a brief story on the event for the Monmouth Courier newspaper, by Mia Martino, is available here. Information about Classics Day through the years can be found at the Classics Day Festival Facebook page.

classics day vi at monmouth college

Dr, Robert Holschuh Simmons, Monmouth College

classics day vi at monmouth college

Dr, Robert Holschuh Simmons, Monmouth College

Ten different ancient Olympic athletic events;

Roman stone carving;

Roman mosaic-making (with tools for shaping tiles);

Experts explaining ten different ancient and modern languages that represented branches of various world language trees;

Virtual reality immersion into ancient cities;

A station on conceptions of the brain, ancient and modern;

Posters on myths from cultures around the world;

Music inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, performed by Monmouth’s wind ensemble;

Growth of, construction of, and writing on papyrus, offered by professor Dan Leon and graduate students from the University of Illinois;

A performance by Rockford University professor Yoandy Cabrera and students of an original English/Spanish play, Call Me Meddy, based on Euripides’ Medea; and

A modern Greek meal, offered free of charge through grant funding and donations.

From the American Classical League Website:

"This award has been established by Dr. Dwight G. Watkins in memory of his wife who taught Latin at Oak Hills High School in Ohio. The $500.00 award is to be used in any manner the awardee chooses."

Check out this link for more information and the application!