Prof. Emily Baragwanath is co-organizer together with Luca Grillo (University of Notre Dame), Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University), and Christopher Krebs (Stanford University) of the upcoming international conference on ‘Rhetoric & Historiography: New Perspectives’, May 19-20, University of Notre Dame, Rome … Read more
The Department of Classics is proud to announce Katie Tardio’s recent publication in the Carolina Graduate School Magazine. Please consider supporting the article, titled Ancient food economies and centuries-old connections, by reading it on the Carolina Graduate School Magazine’s website. … Read more
The UNC Department of Classics presents Menander’s Tyche and the Fortunes of Ancient Greek Poetry Anna Uhlig, University of California, Davis Thursday, 23 March 2023, 5:00pm MU 104 Over the course of the twentieth century – the so-called “century of papyrology” – … Read more
Henry Spelman, who received his BA in Classics (Combined Greek and Latin) at UNC in 2010, has been appointed Fellow at Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge. While at UNC, Henry received the Eben Alexander and Epps Prizes in Greek, and … Read more
Sarah Hilker has received the Olivia James Traveling Fellowship from the Archaeological Institute of America for the 2023-24 academic year. Her proposed project, “Zygouries: The ‘The Potter’s Shop In Context,” is to reconstruct the stratigraphy and settlement history of the … Read more
Rachel Sarvey, a second-year Classical Archaeology major at UNC, has been awarded both the Anne L. and S. Epes Robinson Honors Fellowship from Honors Carolina and the Peter Knox Excavation and Field Work Award from the Classical Association of the … Read more
On Tuesday, 7 March 2023, beginning at 5:00 PM in Murphey Hall 104, Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) will present a lecture entitled, “Life at Berkou: A Newly-Discovered Roman Praesidium in Egypt.” A description follows: In … Read more
How should we cope with life’s vicissitudes? Do forces outside of our control impinge upon our ability to live meaningful and good lives? Are love and reason fundamentally at odds with each other? Join the Department of Philosophy and the … Read more
The Department of Philosophy and the Department of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill are pleased to invite you to join us for a two-part discussion series (free & open to the public) at Flyleaf Books that will cover the social … Read more
Last weekend, Emily Baragwanath had the honor of presenting at a conference titled “Creolizing the Greeks: Inventions, Resistances, and Transformations”. The conference was hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University and organized by Christopher Moore and Eduardo … Read more