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Classicizing Philadelphia:  Digital Resources for a City’s Dialogue with Greece and Rome

Mission:

 
Classicizing Philadelphia, a digital humanities project inspired by the Classicizing Chicago project at Northwestern University, seeks to document, study, and continue Philadelphia’s long, deep dialogue with Greece and Rome. The project has these goals:

 History of the Project:

 Classicizing Philadelphia grew out of conversations held with the founders of Classicizing Chicago in December, 2009, at a Sawyer Seminar on "Theatre After Athens" sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University.  Planning during 2010 and 2011 was funded by a Mellon TriCo Faculty Forum grant. Principal investigators were Lee T. Pearcy (Bryn Mawr College), Deborah Roberts (Haverford College), and Grace Ledbetter (Swarthmore College).  Preliminary development of a collection database and web site began in 2013-2014 with the support of Bryn Mawr College and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.  Further information about planning and current news about the project may be found at the Classicizing Philadelphia blog.

People:

Director:  Lee T. Pearcy, Ph.D., Research Associate in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College.

Megan Dickman, Research Assistant.

Contact:  classicizingphiladelphia@gmail.com

Sponsors and Partners:

Bryn Mawr College

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States

TriCo Digital Humanities

Interactive Mechanics