{"id":108,"date":"2017-01-23T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:16:23","slug":"classics-day-immerses-wildcats-in-ancient-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/2017\/01\/23\/classics-day-immerses-wildcats-in-ancient-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics Day Immerses Wildcats in Ancient Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rob Champigny ’18 with another great leader, Augustus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Classics Day brings together students of Latin from around the Pioneer Valley who, for one day, immerse themselves in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. The annual event is\u00a0organized and hosted by the Pioneer Valley Classics Association and held at Mount Holyoke College in nearby South Hadley, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n

On January 20, Williston students were among 341 attendees at the event. Classics Day spurred student imaginations and inspired Wildcats\u00a0to spend hours working on projects that were rewarded with 10 prizes. A remarkable example: One student, Gabe Moon ’18, taught himself metal working so he could create a prize-winning replica of a Roman helmet.<\/p>\n

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Gabe Moon ’18 taught himself metal working to create this prize-winning Roman helmet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to competing and attending workshops on Roman games, gladiators, curse tablets and coins, among other topics, students toured the collection of Roman daily life objects in the Mount Holyoke College Museum and had the chance to examine 2000-year-old coins first hand with the curators.<\/p>\n

Students won prizes in every category they\u00a0entered: art (models, military, drawing, sculpture),\u00a0certamen<\/em>\u00a0(Latin \u201cquiz bowl\u201d), and oral recitation (Greek poetry and advanced level prose). Here are the winners:<\/p>\n