1.   And since Arac was not ready to make an immediate decision, Columbia tapped a member of the classics department, Roger Bagnall, to fill the gap.

2.   Gregory Nagy, chairman of the classics department at Harvard University, also believes that films, unlike books, cannot alter the course of history.

3.   Josiah Ober heads the classics department at Princeton University.

4.   Renata taught Spanish literature at Brown, and later helped establish the classics department at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

5.   The dean of students, Olivia Dorman, resigned and returned to teach in the classics department.

6.   The university classics departments at Stanford and Berkeley may be big, but Stoppard aims to corral more than the donnish.