Reappraising Ovid: Professor Boyd Examines the Roman Poet’s Relationship with Homeric Tradition
The Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek aims to shed fresh light on the literary connections between Ovid and Homer, who lived nearly a thousand years before the Roman poet, and who may well have been several different people!
Maine Siblings Recall Grandfather’s Role in MacMillan’s Crocker Land Expedition
In 1913, Maine country doctor Harrison J. Hunt, of the Class of 1902, answered a newspaper ad, which read: “Doctor for Crocker Land Expedition needed. Sailing in six weeks.”
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Acquires 4th-Century Fish Plate
The Museum recently acquired a 4th century BCE Apulian Red-Figure Fish Plate that strengthens the Museum’s holdings of artifacts from the Greek colonies in southern Italy and Sicily.
Focus on “Skowhegan Green II” by Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling’s painting “Skowhegan Green II,” currently on view in “Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900–2000,” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, was inspired by the verdant landscape of rural Maine during the summer of 1984,
“Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980:” A Lecture by Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Kelly Baum on February 8
Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will speak at Bowdoin on Thursday, February 8.
Taking a Polar Plunge When It’s 3 Degrees Out
With the January morning wind chill hovering near three degrees above zero, six members of the Bowdoin Outing Club members took a (very) brief early-morning swim in the cold ocean waters at Reid State Park in Georgetown.
Nature Moments: Why Gulls Keep Changing Their Appearance
Gulls—do NOT call them seagulls—are extraordinarily variable in the way they look. The color of an individual’s plumage, legs, and eyes reveals not only what species it is, but also its age, condition and social status.
A Conversation on Patriotism and Protest with Bowdoin Student Government
What is patriotism? How do we differentiate patriotism, nationalism, and citizenship? What are the duties of a patriot? Are we most patriotic when our views and values align with those in power?