{"id":5147,"date":"2017-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/age-old-skills-give-usc-classics-students-a-big-win-over-their-contemporaries\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:09:33","slug":"age-old-skills-give-usc-classics-students-a-big-win-over-their-contemporaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/age-old-skills-give-usc-classics-students-a-big-win-over-their-contemporaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-old skills give USC classics students a big win over their contemporaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2586-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-2586-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Age-old skills give USC classics students a big win over their contemporaries\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  In the Latin translation competition, teams were given a few minutes to translate, identify the author and explain the context of the quote. Photos courtesy of Zoie Petrakis.\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=student\">Student<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Age-old skills give USC classics students a big win over their contemporaries<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  What gave the Trojans a leg up in the Classics Olympia competition? Credit the intimacy of USC Dornsife\u2019s Classics Department \u2014 especially small class sizes and student-faculty camaraderie.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Joanna Clay<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">May 1, 2017<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n 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Students from USC Dornsife&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/clas\">Classics Department<\/a> recently put their knowledge to the test &mdash; and came out on top.<\/p>\n<p>The students took on their counterparts from UCLA and California State University, Long Beach in the region&rsquo;s first Classics Olympia competition. The competitors met at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, standing a stone&rsquo;s throw from the antiquities they study.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in four categories &ndash; trivia, Greek translation, Latin translation and debate &ndash; the Trojans took home the win in each one.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our strongest point was definitely the translation,&rdquo; said Zoie Petrakis, a double major in classics and international relations. &ldquo;Translating ancient Greek and Latin is pretty tough.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans even took to speaking ancient Greek and Latin among themselves, which they said seemed to throw the competition off a bit. But speaking in ancient tongues isn&rsquo;t foreign to the students of the close-knit department, who even have a weekly club for chatting in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People can read it really well usually, but once you try to speak it, you get kind of tongue-tied,&rdquo; said 20-year-old Emma Dyson, a classics major who started the Spoken Latin Club last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catching up with each other<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesdays, students come together in Taper Hall. They catch up over coffee, tea, cookies and nuts. With 22 classics majors, 15 minors and 21 doctoral candidates in the department, most know each other.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-image-landscape news-image-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Classics2-2586.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape Right\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\"><\/p>\n<p>The USC Classics Team won the Classics Olympia competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trojans say the department&rsquo;s intimacy &mdash; especially the small class sizes and the camaraderie between students and faculty &mdash; is perhaps its greatest asset.<\/p>\n<p>Petrakis points to one class she had that only had a couple of students in it &mdash; not uncommon in the department &mdash; so the professor let them pick the tragedy they read and help shape the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They kind of tailor it to what you want to do,&rdquo; said Petrakis, a sophomore who grew up in California and Greece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21st-century focus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The department is also very focused on making classics a discipline of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to, say, the 1960s, classics departments across the country were grounded in understanding the languages and the literature, according to Assistant Professor Lucas Herchenroeder.<\/p>\n<p>Students and graduates called USC&rsquo;s department innovative and progressive. Its courses analyze the ancient civilizations not simply to understand them but also as a context in analyzing the Western world, from contemporary thought on immigration and race to gender and sexuality. Courses touch on democracy, mythic storytelling and the ancient ideas about crime.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, classics can easily cross over with other majors, such as archeology, art history or international relations, Herchenroeder pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the classics majors &ndash; 73 percent &ndash; are double majoring or minoring in another discipline.<\/p>\n<p>USC President C. L. Max Nikias is an example of that overlap: He holds faculty appointments in both electrical engineering and the classics. Nikias is an avid reader of ancient prose and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2164\/lessons-from-the-president\/\">co-taught a class on ancient Athenian democracy<\/a> in the department last year.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Mehak Khan is training to be a neuroscientist, but she says her classics studies stand out at USC.<\/p>\n<p>She took Latin in middle school and high school, but when she immersed herself in science courses during her first years at USC, she realized she missed the ancient cultures. She first got hooked with a class on ancient science. She&rsquo;s graduating in May &ndash; majoring in neuroscience, minoring in classics.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If anything, I wish I had majored in classics,&rdquo; Khan said. &ldquo;A little bit of regret there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What gave the Trojans a leg up in the Classics Olympia competition? 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