Emily Baragwanath will be the keynote speaker at the the upcoming U of Georgia undergraduate Classics conference, ’The Evolving Hero’, sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, on March 26, 2022. Emily’s paper, ‘Supplanting Pandora: Rewriting Female Heroism in Greek Myth and … Read more

Emily Baragwanath will provide commentary on and critique of three recently-published books on Xenophon’s Socrates at the upcoming panel organized by the International Plato Society at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, at the Palmer House Hilton … Read more

Undergrads, please sign up! The competitions were cancelled in 2021 because of Covid, so there will be FOUR winners this Spring! THE ALBERT SUSKIN PRIZE IN LATIN The Suskin Prize is in memory of Albert I. Suskin, first a student … Read more

Justin Hadad ’21, who was a double major in Applied Physics & Economics, and a Latin minor who co-founded a website on the Latin poet Propertius and did a summer research project that involved the American Academy in Rome, has … Read more

The Department mourns the passing of our dear friend and colleague Kenneth J. Reckford, Kenan Professor of Classics Emeritus, at the age of 88.  Kenneth taught at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1960-2003 and left an indelible mark on the Department and … Read more

Kenneth J. Reckford offers a feast for mind and spirit  By Philip Stadter in the Fall 2002 Department newsletter Tabulae.  In forty-three years of teaching at Chapel Hill, Prof. Kenneth Reckford has always delighted students and friends with his endless … Read more

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Classics Undergraduate Prizes and Awards Spring 2022 PRIZE COMPETITIONS IN LATIN AND GREEK THE HERINGTON PRIZE IN GREEK & LATIN— The Herington Greek and Latin Poetry Prizes, established in 1999 by … Read more

DATE CHANGE: Joe Goodkin, “Blues of Achilles” Wednesday, October 20th An Adaptation of the Iliad in Song. Join us for a live performance of Joe Goodkin’s original composition, a retelling of Homer’s Iliad in seventeen songs: “The Blues of Achilles.” … Read more

The Classics department is pleased to announce a virtual workshop, organized as part of Professor Jen Gates-Foster’s collaboration with the ERC-funded Desert Networks Project. The purpose of this workshop is to create an analytical framework for understanding the complex and … Read more

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) … Read more