Classics has been part of the curriculum of the University of Mississippi since its inception. One of the first four faculty members was John Newton Waddel who had the title Professor of Ancient Languages. In 1856, Greek and Latin were made distinct "schools" and, in the early 20th century, separate "departments". In 1937, after the death of Professor Alexander Bondurant, the Departments of Greek and Latin were merged into the Department of Classics. The first building constructed was named the Lyceum in honor of the school of Aristotle in Athens.
In the early 19th century, knowledge of Greek and Latin was a prerequisite for admission to colleges and universities, so it is not surprising that Classics played a prominent role in the early history of the University. For instance, the first Chancellor, George Frederick Holmes, had previously been Professor of Ancient Languages at Richmond College. John Newton Waddel was himself Chancellor of the University from 1865-1874. Four other classics faculty members were briefly acting Chancellor in 1874, 1921, 1930 and 1932 (Professors Wheat, Bondurant, Longest and Milden). Perhaps the greatest period for the importance of Classics was in 1865 when the University reopened after the Civil War. At that time three-quarters of the University's faculty were Classics professors!
The first professor of Classics, J. N. Waddel, came from a family of educators and clergymen. His father was Dr. Moses Waddel, President of the University of Georgia from 1819 to 1829, a distinguished educator and Presbyterian minister. His cousin was the noted politician and orator Senator John C. Calhoun. J. N. Waddel received his B.A. degree with honors from the University of Georgia in 1829. He then taught at Willington Academy in South Carolina, and was Principal of the Grammar School in Athens, Georgia. In 1841 he purchased 2,550 acres of land in Jasper County, Mississippi where he established a private school called Montrose Academy. In 1843, the year in which Waddel was elected to the Presbyterian ministry by the Tombigbee Presbytery in Columbus, Mississippi, the state Senate chartered the first Board of Trustees of the University to which Waddel was appointed.
In April, 1847, Waddel attended his first meeting of the Board in Oxford. Since no railroad or mail-coach was available, he made the 200-mile journey on horseback "in great measure alone, through a wild and desolate region of the country." (J. N. Waddel, Memorials of Academic Life, [Richmond, Va., 1891] p. 249). He was appointed chairman of the committee to draw up a course of instruction for the new university. Later, Waddel decided to resign from the Board and became a candidate for the proposed Professorship of Ancient Languages. There were some 75 candidates for that post when the Board met to appoint the first faculty in the summer of 1848.
When the University of Mississippi opened in November of 1848, one small omission was immediately apparent. No one had provided for the purchase of textbooks which were otherwise unavailable in Oxford, however, Waddel was able to obtain a "meager" supply of books from Rev. Francis Hawks who operated a "classical school" in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Waddel's description of the first session of the university indicates that it was not smooth sailing: "The progress of the session just opening--the first of the University--proved to the Faculty that the office of Professor--always arduous in the most favorable circumstances--was, in this case, by no means a sinecure, no mere child's play." He continues "it must be stated that, in all probability, very rarely, if ever, was an institution of learning attended by a body of students so disorderly and turbulent as those of the first session proved to be, taken as a mass. The difficulties that were connected with the management and control of the students were attributable, more than to any other cause, to the assemblage at one spot of so many untrained young men and boys, many of whom had never before attended such an institution, and whose imaginations had been allured by the traditional conception that a college life was only a scene of fun and frolic. This subject may be dismissed with the remark that, in my opinion, nothing saved the University from utter and speedy ruin, under God's blessing, but the sternest and most rigid exercise of discipline." (Memorials pp. 266-267)
Entrance requirements in Latin were established when the University opened in 1848. They were "five books of Caesar, Vergil's Eclogues and Aeneid, and Cicero's Orations." In addition, "the candidate must be well versed in the Latin Grammar, including Latin Prosody." Freshmen read Livy and Ovid and studied Latin composition and prosody. Sophomores read Horace, Tacitus, Juvenal and Persius and studied "antiquities". Juniors read Cicero's de Oratore, de Senectute and de Amicitia and studied "antiquities". three years of Latin were required for a B.A. degree. An M.A. degree was also offered. The Greek curriculum in 1852-53 consisted of Xenophon and Homer's Iliad for Freshmen, Homer's Odyssey and Demosthenes for Sophomores and Greek Tragedies for third-year students.
In 1855 Waddel was joined by two junior faculty members--Rev. George T. Stainback and Dr. William Alexander Eakins, a physician, both alumni of the class of 1854. In 1856, the Professorship of Ancient Languages was separated into a Professorship of Greek and a Professorship of Latin and Modern Languages. Wilson Gaines Richardson took the latter position and Waddel took the position in Greek. Richardson was a graduate of the University of Alabama where he had been a Tutor and had studied in Rome, Berlin and Paris. He left in 1860 and later taught at Davidson College and Austin College.
Richardson wrote one of the first defenses of Classics in the curriculum: "The history of this remarkable people [the Romans], the state of the arts among them, their domestic life, public and private usages, their mythology, laws, education, geography and antiquities are severally developed in expounding Roman authors. Latin is not taught as an isolated language, but in its various and important relations to other tongues. The influence of the Greek language upon the Latin is noted and the Latin upon the modern tongues, with especial reference above all to its bearing upon our vernacular. Everything is made subservient to thorough English scholarship." (Catalog of the University for 1856-57, p. 21)
Upon the resignation of J. N. Waddel in 1857, Henry Whitehorn was appointed to the position of Professor of Greek and he continued until the beginning of the Civil War after which he held the same position at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Waddel became President of the Presbyterian Synodical College in LaGrange, Tennessee. Following the war, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Mississippi. Rev. John J. Wheat was appointed Professor of Greek and Alexander J. Quinche, Professor of Latin. The only other faculty member when the University reopened in 1865 was Gen. Claudius W. Sears who was Professor of Mathematics. The terrible experiences of the war and the fact that most of the new students were older resulted in a more sober and serious student body in the post-war years. Waddel served as Chancellor until 1874 when he resigned to become Chancellor at Southwestern University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
On the occasion of its quarter-centennial celebration (June 25, 1873), Waddel wrote the first history of the University of Mississippi. In it he discussed the growth of the university as well as its often difficult relations with the state legislature. He cited, for instance, Gov. John J. McRae's message to the legislature of 1856 in which it was calculated that the state owed the University Fund, at that time, $1,077,790.07. In 1869, with the approval of the Board, Waddel undertook a tour of other universities to study their facilities and curricula. He visited Harvard, MIT, Amherst, Yale, CUNY, Princeton, Brown, Michigan and Georgia. Influenced especially by Michigan and Harvard, Waddel urged the adoption of an elective curriculum which gave to the students a great amount of choice in the courses they took. Aside from this Historical Discourse of 1873 and his Memorials of Academic Life, Waddel wrote two other books--Moral Courage (1869) and The Evils of Unsanctified Ambition (1870).
Returning to the saga of the faculty, Rev. Wheat came from Copiah County, Mississippi and had studied at Hanover and Centre Colleges. His mother was a member of the Millsaps family and he was a Methodist minister. His interests ran to etymology and mythology as well as philology. He briefly served as Acting Chancellor in 1874. Quinche was of Swiss-Hugenot ancestry and came from Minnesota. He was educated at CUNY and received his degree from Columbian University (now George Washington University) in Washington, D.C. He served as custodian of the University buildings during the Civil War and is credited with saving them from destruction owing to the fact that he had lived in Illinois where he had known members of General Grant's family. Grant is said to have ordered his men to guard the buildings of the University. Quinche is also credited with setting the outline of courses to be taken to fulfill the requirements for the M.A. in Latin. He continued as Professor of Latin until his death in 1889. His daughter was one of the first eleven women to enter the University in 1882.
In the post-war era the entrance requirements in Latin were reduced since fewer and fewer young men had adequate preparation. A. H. Whitfield was Adjunct Professor of Greek from 1872 to 1874 after which he practiced law and became Professor of Law at the University. He later served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. The importance of Classics in the Reconstruction-era curriculum is revealed in the fact that the commencement exercises of 1876 included a Greek Salutatory address spoken by S. A. Witherspoon of Oxford.
In 1889, the chairs of Latin and Greek were again combined and Professor Addison Hogue took responsibility for both languages. Hogue had previously taught at Hampden-Sydney College. During his tenure Roman history and religion were added to the course offerings. He was author of The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose (Boston, 1889).
One of the most prominent names in the Classics Department's history is that of Professor Alexander Lee Bondurant. Bondurant received his B.A. and M.A. at Hampden-Sydney and took a second M.A. at Harvard. He did additional graduate work at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. During the 1910-11 academic year he was granted leave to study at the Universities of Berlin, Munich and Rome. He first joined the faculty in 1889 and succeeded to the Chair of Latin in 1893 when Professor Hogue resigned to become Professor of Greek at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. While Bondurant was Chair of Latin, the standards for admission were once again elevated to pre-war levels. Four years of high school Latin were required. The curriculum was also expanded to include courses in Methods of Teaching Latin, Advanced Latin Composition, Roman Comedy, Roman Satirists, Catullus and Pliny. Between 1894 and 1910, the number of students enrolled in Latin classes rose from 70 to 160. Between 1893 and 1908, 84% of students taking any B.A. degree at the University had studied Latin for two years. All Rhodes scholars from Mississippi had taken Latin at the University. Graduate-level offerings were also expanded to include Lucretius, Ovid and Roman Antiquities.
Bondurant was a prominent faculty member and active in numerous enterprises. He established the first football team and served as its first coach in 1893. He was also the first Dean of the Graduate School from 1927 to 1936 and served as Acting Chancellor briefly in 1921. It was Professor Bondurant who selected the colors Red and Blue for the university (the red from Harvard, the blue from Yale). He was President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 1924-5, Vice-President of the American Classical League and a member of the famous CAMWS advisory committee on revision of classical studies chaired by the redoubtable Professor Andrew Fleming West of Princeton. He was active in the Mississippi Classical Association, the Mississippi Historical Society and Eta Sigma Phi. He even served as the first president of the Oxford Rotary Club. In 1930, Bondurant was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy and in 1935 he was created a colonel on the staff of Mississippi Governor Hugh White who had been his student.
Professor Bondurant edited a newsletter for Latin teachers in Mississippi which was appropriately entitled Vox in Desertis Clamans. For many years the department sponsored a competition for Latin students in Mississippi high schools and the winner received the Alexander Bondurant Cup. Bondurant published A Short Latin Grammar and articles on Plautus, ancient athletics, Roman schoolmasters and Roman humor.
Assisting Professor Bondurant in teaching Latin were three younger scholars: Paul H. Saunders, Ph.D. who was Assistant Professor from 1892 to 1895 and Professor of Greek from 1895 to 1905, James W. Bell in 1903-4 who was later Dean of Commerce and Business Administration, and Christopher Longest in 1908-9 who later became Professor of Modern Languages and served as Acting Chancellor in 1930. Saunders received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Mississippi and later retired from teaching to become President of the Commercial Bank & Trust Co. of Laurel, Mississippi.
The last Chair of the Department of Greek and the first Chair of the Department of Classics was Professor Alfred W. Milden. Dr. Milden was also Dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1920 to 1936 and may have served from time to time as Acting Chancellor when Chancellor Alfred Hume and the Vice Chancellor were both absent from campus in the period from 1932 to 1935. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. There he studied with the most famous and influential classicist of the day, Professor Basil Gildersleeve who is credited with transforming the study of classical philology modeling his methods on those he had learned while a student in Germany. (Gildersleeve was the son of a Presbyterian minister from South Carolina and had been educated at Virginia and Princeton prior to his graduate work in Germany.) Milden wrote "Ionia and Greek Colonization" in TAPA and The Limitations of the Predicative Position in Greek (Baltimore, 1899). He had taught at Emory and Henry College before coming to Mississippi.
The first woman faculty member, Dr. Evelyn Lee Way, rose from Instructor to become Chair. She began her career in 1931 teaching Latin and retired in 1972. Dr. Way was educated at Sweet Briar College and received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. To Dr. Way belongs the credit for selecting the university's Latin motto: "Pro Scientia et Sapientia."
William H. Willis was a native of Meridian, Mississippi and was the grandson of a Baptist minister. He received his B.A. from Mississippi College, an M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Yale. Following the death of Professor Milden in 1944 and because of World War II, enrollments in Classics had dropped, so after the war Professor Willis was hired in 1946 to rebuild the program. Assisted by Dr. Way, Willis proceeded to expand the program and decided to emphasize classical archaeology. He energetically attended meetings of professional associations and interviewed many candidates for the position of classical archaeologist, but it was not until 1948 that his persistence and diligence was rewarded when he persuaded the internationally prominent Professor David M. Robinson who had recently retired from Johns Hopkins University to join the faculty of the University of Mississippi.
Willis was active as a member of the Mississippi Classical Association and the American Philological Association. In 1960-62 he served on the Executive Committee of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. In 1963, he assumed the senior editorship of the important classical journal Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies and transferred its headquarters from Harvard to Mississippi. Unfortunately this event coincided with divisive civil rights strife in Mississippi and Professor Willis left the University to become Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at Duke University.
Professor David Moore Robinson was the most eminent and most colorful classicist who ever taught in Mississippi. He brought with him a large collection of Greek and Roman art and artifacts as well as a considerable personal library. All of the books and the larger portion of his collection still reside in Mississippi though a substantial portion of the collection is now at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University and many coins are in the American Numismatic Society in New York.
Robinson was born in Auburn, NY and received his A.B. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He also studied at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and in Berlin, Bonn and Halle. He spent most of his career at Hopkins, but also taught at Notre Dame College, Illinois College, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Berkeley, UCLA, Syracuse, William and Mary, Western Reserve University, NYU and Kenyon. He excavated at Corinth, Sardis, Antioch in Pisidia and Olynthus. The bibliography of his published works takes up 11 pages in the giant two-volume festschrift which his students and distinguished scholars from around the world presented him on his 70th birthday in 1950. He served as editor of Classical Weekly, the American Journal of Philology, Art and Archaeology, Art Bulletin and the American Journal of Archaeology as well as Johns Hopkins Studies in Archaeology. His students included some of the most prominent American classicists and archaeologists of this century: William A. McDonald of Minnesota, Allan Chester Johnson of Princeton, George Mylonas of Washington University, Paul Clement of UCLA, J. Walter Graham of Toronto, Dorothy Kent Hill of the Walters Art Gallery, George Hanfmann of Harvard, Saul and Gladys Weinberg of Missouri, John H. Young of Hopkins and Richard Howland of the Smithsonian.
In conjunction with Professor Robinson's arrival, the University became a contributing institution of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Robinson also established a local society of the Archaeological Institute of America and a few years later the University became associated with the American Academy in Rome.
In 1955, Dr. Alexander Cambitoglou was hired as a second professor of archaeology. Dr. Cambitoglou had received an M.A. from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. from the University of London. He had studied with the most eminent scholar of Greek vases, Professor Sir John Beazley of Oxford University, and had already begun a distinguished career. In 1956, he was appointed as one of only four American members of the Committee on the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum and was invited to serve as director of the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He was also engaged in excavating the important Athenian religious center Eleusis under the direction of Robinson's student, Professor George Mylonas.
In 1957, Professor Robinson was awarded the Cross of the Royal Order of Phoenix by King Paul of Greece. Willis set up an archaeological fund and purchased numerous Greek and Coptic papyri and an important Coptic Codex. He was frequently invited to serve as visiting professor (at Texas, Colorado, Michigan and Oxford). The department received visits from numerous prominent scholars such as A. D. Trendall of the University of Sydney and Dietrich von Bothmer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Cambitoglou had distinguished himself to such an extent that he was offered a professorship at Bryn Mawr. He went on to have a distinguished career as vase painting expert at the University of Sydney, is the author of many books and articles and was honored with a festschrift edited by his frequent collaborator, A. D. Trendall.
Following the death of Professor Robinson in 1958, Dr. Jack Benson taught archaeology until his resignation in 1963. He had studied at the University of Missouri, Indiana University and the University of Basel and had excavated at Gordion and Cyprus. Benson had been a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1955 was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
In 1960 came the welcome news that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peddle of Oxford were purchasing Mrs. Robinson's share of the Robinson Collection and donating it to the University.
In 1961, Lucy Turnbull joined the faculty and took up the duties of the department's classical archaeologist. Aside from teaching art history, archaeology, mythology and classical civilization courses, she was instrumental in planning the expansion of the University Museums. The Kate Skipwith Teaching Museum was to house the large and important collection of classical antiquities bequeathed to the University in the will of Professor Robinson, given by Mrs. Robinson and purchased through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Peddle from the estate of Mrs. Robinson. It also affords classroom and laboratory space for faculty and students. Professor Turnbull was educated at Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe. Her dissertation at Radcliffe, Some Aspects of Greek Geometric Bronzes, was supervised by Robinson's student George Hanfmann. She had received museum experience at Wellesley College, the Corinth Museum, the Agora Museum in Athens and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She was both John Williams White Fellow and Charles Eliot Norton Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Professor Turnbull served for many years as Secretary of the Mississippi Society of the AIA and as a member of the Managing Committee of the American School at Athens. She is the author of many scholarly articles and contributions to books, chiefly in the fields of Greek vase painting, mythology and Greek poetry. She served as Chair of the Senate of the Faculty and in 1983 became Director of the University Museums, a post she held until 1990.
Richard P. Stewart received his education at Harvard and taught ancient history from 1961 to 1963 on a joint appointment in Classics and History, but, like Willis and Benson, he left Mississippi as a result of the civil rights strife of the early 1960s.
In 1964, Edward Capps III, who, like Waddel, is a scion of an academic dynasty (his grandfather was a distinguished Professor of Classics at Princeton and his father was a well-known Professor of Classical Art at Oberlin College) became Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin. Dr. Capps was educated at Swarthmore College and Yale and had taught at Emory University prior to his appointment in Mississippi. In 1968, he was promoted to Associate Professor. His scholarly interests are in Latin pedagogy and linguistics. From 1969 to 1972 he served as Vice-President for Mississippi in CAMWS. He retired in 2002 and was named Professor Emeritus.
After the retirement of Evelyn Way in 1972, Edwin Dolin was appointed Chair and Associate Professor of Greek and Latin. Dr. Dolin received his education at Harvard and had taught at Amherst, Berkeley and the University of California at San Diego. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of CAMWS, President of the Mississippi Society of the AIA and as a member of the Mississippi Committee for the Humanities. He is co-author of An Anthology of Greek Tragedy and numerous scholarly articles on Homer, Thucydides and the Greek tragedians. He has translated several Greek plays and participated in the production of Greek tragedies for the stage. Dr. Dolin served for two terms as Chair and two terms as Secretary of the Senate of the Faculty. He retired and was named Professor Emeritus in June, 1994.
In 1980, Robert A. Moysey was hired as Assistant Professor of Classics with a specialization in ancient history. He received his B.A. with high honors at the University of Cincinnati and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton. He previously taught at Hamilton College and the University of Delaware. Dr. Moysey teaches Greek and Roman history as well as Greek and Latin and has research interests in Greek and Greco-Persian history, in Greek epigraphy and numismatics. He is the author of seventeen published works in those fields. His chief publication is a study of coins minted at Tarsus in Cilicia which was published by the American Numismatic Society. He serves on the Managing Committee of the American School at Athens and the Advisory Committee of the American Academy in Rome. He has been a member of the advisory board of the University of Oklahoma Press Series on Classical Culture. He was promoted to Professor in 1990 and was made Chair in 1994. He retired in 2004.
Mrs. Sheila Hood was first appointed as Instructor of Latin in 1983. She was educated at Mercer University and received an M.A. from Ohio State University. Mrs. Hood has taught Latin in several high schools including Jackson Preparatory School in Jackson, Mississippi. She resigned in 1996 because she and her husband moved to Florida. She also served as Acting Director of the Career Center.
During the 1994-95 academic year, Dr. Frank Russell was Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics. He received his B.A. at Loyola Marymount University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA. He left Mississippi to teach at Dartmouth College and then Transylvania University.
During 1995-1996 Dr. David Driscoll was Assistant Professor of Classics. Dr. Driscoll received his B.A. in Greek from Vassar College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had previously taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.
Joining the faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 1996 was Dr. Aileen Ajootian, who received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. She had taught at Cleveland State University, the University of Oregon, McMaster University and College Year in Athens. Dr. Ajootian became Chairperson in 200*, and the department has grown significantly under her leadership. She has published widely on the material remains of ancient Greece.
Dr. James Barrett also joined the department in 1996, having received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and having taught there and at Colby College. He left the University of Mississippi for Colby College in 1999.
In 1984, James C. Rubright, an M.A. student of Professor Robinson in the 1950s, went on to become a professor of art history at Ohio State, bequeathed to the University $20,000 for a graduate fellowship in Classics. Today the Lipsey-Rubright Fellowship fund has a principal of more than $29,000 and numerous graduate students have benefited from the support it provides. In 1997, Professor Robert N. Leavell, Alumni Association Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Georgia, established the Way, Jackson and Leavell Awards for the Study of the Classics which provide $1,000 per year for an undergraduate Classics major. The award honors three long-time Latin teachers: Dr. Evelyn Way, former Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi, Miss Harriet Jackson and Mrs. Grace Farley Leavell who taught at University High School.
In January, 1997, the Department of Classics moved its offices to the third floor of the McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. Also, during the 1996-1997 academic year the department received contributions through the Ventress Order of the College of Liberal Arts and books from Mr. Leonard S. Kraemer of Jackson, Mississippi.
In 2002 Dr. Jonathan Fenno joined the Department of Classics. He had taught at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, after earning a Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA. He has published several articles on Greek poetry, especially Homer and Pindar.
During the 2002-2003 academic year, Dr. Thomas Kohn was Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He subsequently taught at the University of Richmond, the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and Wayne State University.
In 2003 Dr. Edward Gutting joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi, after leading the Classics program at Virginia Wesleyan College. He had earned his doctorate from Princeton University, having written a dissertation on Vergil's Aeneid. He has also published on the Homeric scholia.
In 2004 the Department welcomed Dr. John Lobur to the University. He had earned his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Michigan, with a specialization in Ancient History. In 2008 his revised dissertation was published by Routledge as a book on Roman Imperial Ideology. He has also published an article on the topic.
During the academic year 2004-2005, David A. Webb served the Department as an Adjunct Instructor of Classics, and has taught summer courses on several occasions. He had earned an M.A. in Classics from the University of Mississippi and is pursuing a Ph.D. with the University of Missouri, writing a dissertation on Pausanias.
In 2006 Dr. Molly Pasco-Pranger became a member of the Department, having taught previously at Wesleyan University and the University of Puget Sound. She had earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. In 2006 her book on Ovid's Fasti and the Roman calendar was published by Brill, and several articles of hers on the subject have also appeared in print.
In March of 2007, the Department of Classics happily moved to new offices in Bryant Hall, which had just been beautifully renovated.
Our chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honorary, is one of the oldest and largest active chapters in the country.
The David M. Robinson Memorial Collection is still the most outstanding permanent holding of the University Museums and one of the best collections of Greek and Roman art and artifacts in the South. It is frequently in demand for loans to international traveling exhibitions.
