By Netty Andrews'25
On Thursday, May 12th, the Classics Department hosted its annual awards banquet, with a success made by 50 students in attendance for this event. The students enjoyed Greek mac and cheese, Gyro sandwiches, Greek salad, and grape juice. My personal favorites were the mac and cheese, with the greek salad coming in a close second.
To kick off the event, the Greek I students recited the opening lines of Homer's Iliad, hoping to continue this as a tradition. This was followed by the Classics Diploma students presenting their Capstone project, All’s Fair. All’s Fair was an one-act tragedy that imitated Greek theater practices, exploring themes of love, war, and force, which they have learned about this year. During the chorus of this play, the Greek I students made another appearance.
Finally, Departmental Book prizes for the best sight translation of a passage of Greek or Latin were awarded to Jamie Li in Latin I, Coco Chen in Latin II, Maddy Bean in Latin III, Suha Choi in Advanced Latin, Jiayi Yu in Greek I and Suha Choi in Greek II.
The evening ended with the traditional Latin I play, an adaptation of the Suburani text the class has been reading this year. The audience burst out in laughter, the actors also being unable to contain their joy. Due to COVID-19, Mr. Davey had to step in as narrator, which made the play even more enjoyable. One of my favorite parts of the play was when Jamie Li '25 came in with a cardboard box, labeled “wagon” and pushed Delin Liu’24 who was playing an old man. The play soon ended, and that concluded the 2021- 2022 Classics Banquet.
Congratulations to all of the award winners, to the Classical Diploma Scholars, and to everyone in Classics who worked hard all year!