During the 2021-22 academic year, Cole Warlick, a PhD student in Classical Archaeology at UNC, was the Ackland Art Museum Digital Content Fellow. Cole’s fellowship was part of the university’s Humanities for the Public Good Program, which aimed to offer … Continued
UNC Department of Classics: Herington Poetry Reading Tuesday, November 1st, 2022, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Murphey 104 Information and Requirements are as follows: Prizes of $250 will be awarded to the winners, one in Greek and one in Latin. All … Continued
On Wednesday, 28 September 2022, Tedd Wimperis, Assistant Professor at Elon University (who received his PhD in Classics from UNC in 2017) returns to Chapel Hill to present a lecture entitled “Politics of the Past: Rome, Vergil, and Today,” as … Continued
Contact Emily Baragwanath if you have any questions regarding this event.
Join Amanda C. Ball next Monday, 9/12, to learn about her recent work! Ball, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Classics, spent the summer surveying on the Greek island of Samothrace. She will be presenting a preliminary report of … Continued
In Fall 2022, Professor Hérica Valladares will be the Esther Van Deman Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Each year the American Academy in Rome, one of the oldest US overseas centers for independent work in the … Continued
Welcome back everyone! We look forward to having a great semester with all of you.
Emily is a junior majoring in Classics, concentrating in Greek and Latin. Her academic interests include Augustan poetry and gender, sexuality, and class in antiquity. She is currently the president of Eta Sigma Phi. Jenna is … Continued
Monday, April 11, 1:20 pm (MU 104 with Zoom feed, link below) Professor Emily Baragwanath will present as part of our Faculty Tea Talk Series: “Supplanting Pandora: Xenophon on Mothers” This paper addresses Xenophon’s strategies for disarming the negative emotions … Continued
On March 31 at 3.30, Dr. Emily Pillinger, author of Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019) showed how both Cassandra and the Cumaean Sibyl are female prophets involved in acts of … Continued