Harvard

At Harvard University on Saturday, October 25, 2025, we hosted dozens of students from across New England for a full-day symposium that explored how the ancient world. This Hodie et Cras Symposium connected high school students directly with Harvard Classicists through lectures and discussions to make Classics accessible, relevant, and alive.

Schedule

10:00 AM– Registration and Welcome Address
10:30 AM – Emily Greenwood "Thucydides on Regretting Yesterday"
11:25 AM – Gregory Nagy "Translating a Syntactical Sappho, Not a Fragmentary Sappho"
12:00 PM – Lunch Break
1:30 PM – David Elmer "The Myth of Theuth and Generative AI"
2:15 PM – Student Panel + Q&A
3:00 PM – Closing Remarks

Speakers

Emily Greenwood

James M. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature

Thucydides on Regretting Yesterday

Gregory Nagy

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Translating a Syntactical Sappho, Not a Fragmentary Sappho

David Elmer

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

The Myth of Theuth and Generative AI