Pithos Classics Journal

Pithos Submissions

With a new school year comes a new edition of the Classics department’s student journal, Pithos. We at the CSA are excited to kick things off with a call for papers! All undergraduate and graduate students from any department are encouraged to submit essays, translations, and/or creative works that engage with the ancient Mediterranean. While research papers are of course welcome (and encouraged!), allow yourself to consider submitting something unorthodox — editors are open to all kinds of creative works, including visual arts. Given that the requirements and particulars of such submissions vary, please contact the editors in advance to plan modalities.

We are also seeking readers! If you would like to be involved in reading and editing for Pithos, please email Dani Poortinga at dpoortinga@sfsu.edu. 

Submissions are due by December 21st, 2024.

All submissions sent to Pithos for review should follow these guidelines:

• Articles are to be submitted via email to csa.sfsu13@gmail.com with the subject line “PITHOS 2024 Submission"
• Articles should be submitted as ATTACHMENTS as .doc, .docx, or .pdf files. Should this cause problems please contact the editors.
• Attachment FILE NAMES should read as follows: "[Title of Paper]_Pithos 2024"
• Articles should be submitted WITHOUT A TITLE PAGE. The AUTHOR'S NAME SHOULD NOT APPEAR anywhere in the text of the document.
• The article itself must contain the TITLE OF THE WORK ON THE FIRST PAGE.
• The text of the article should not exceed 25 pages (not including images, notes, and bibliography.)
• You are welcome to use your preference on citations, although Chicago (currently on the 17th edition) is good practice for the field and is preferred.

If you have any questions about what qualifies as "Classics," what you can submit, or what the editing process will be like, feel free to email Dani Poortinga at dpoortinga@sfsu.edu.