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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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. … Read more

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 … Read more