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

At 5:30pm on Monday, March 14, Al Duncan presented a talk entitled “Acting Like Animals: Lessons (and Laughs) about Being Human from Aesop, Aristophanes, and the Ancient Greeks” as part of Carolina Public Humanities’ Spring 2022 events calendar. The presentation … Continued

Al Duncan remotely presented a paper on March 3, “Rags of Defeat: Materializing Failure in Aristophanes’ Acharnians,” at the international conference Materialität und Medialität: Aspekte einer Anderen Äesthetik (Materiality and Mediality: aspects of a Different Aesthetics), co-organized by Jan Stellman … Continued

April 4th (Monday) at 4:40 PM on Zoom In 200 B.C., the Athenians, under increasing external pressure, abandoned the policy of strict external neutrality which they had pursued since 229, when they literally bought back their freedom from the Macedonians. … Continued

James Rives will present a paper at a conference on P. Nigidius Figulus, a friend of Cicero, a die-hard political opponent of Julius Caesar, and a remarkable scholar with a wide range of interests. The conference, which will be conducted … Continued

Together with Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete) Emily Baragwanath has organized a three-day international panel on the topic of “Xenophon and Genre, Genres in Xenophon” in the framework of the Celtic Classics Conference, Lyon, France, July 18-21, 2022. The panel … Continued

The purpose of this talk is to address a normally overlooked aspect of Xenophon’s corpus, namely, his treatment of humor. Studies of ancient Greek theories on humor primarily engage with Plato and Aristotle. This is understandable, as both philosophers overtly … Continued

My paper examines the difference between Aristaeus’ success and Orpheus’ failure in the Georgics. Why does Aristaeus succeed in generating a new hive of bees while Orpheus fails to resurrect Eurydice? Some scholars understand the key difference to be a … Continued