The Department of Classics engages in teaching and researching the civilization of the ancient Greek and Roman world in its broadest sense, from the Bronze Age Aegean to the transmission of classical literature in the Middle Ages and beyond. Our primary focus is the language, literature, art, and archaeology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, but our reach extends to all aspects of their culture as well as to related civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Our field is inherently interdisciplinary, and we draw on a range of approaches in order to understand the diversity of these civilizations and to explore the varied ways in which people in later periods, including our own, have found them meaningful. Some of our graduates pursue advanced study in classics and related academic fields, while others go on to professional schools as well as a variety of careers in the public and private sectors.
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Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer to lecture in Mahindra Center Seminar at Harvard University
Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer will present a lecture on Latin epistolography for the Mahindra Center Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome at Harvard University on September 29, 2021. This talk explores how Roman letter writers (Cicero, Seneca, Ovid) … Continued
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Jen Gates-Foster publishes results of 2020 excavations at Berkou (Eastern Desert of Egypt) in the Journal of Roman Archaeology
Abstract: In 2020, during excavations in the Wadi al-Ghozza in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, archaeologists from the French Archaeological Mission to the Eastern Desert of Egypt discovered a well-preserved Flavian praesidium. This small and unusually shaped fort, identified in … Continued
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Open Letter to The Board of Trustees on Nikole Hannah-Jones
20 June 2021 The Board of Trustees The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dear Members of the Board of Trustees: The Classics Department adds its voice to the faculty consensus rising in protest of recent actions and failure … Continued