Abstract: In 2020, during excavations in the Wadi al-Ghozza in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, archaeologists from the French Archaeological Mission to the Eastern Desert of Egypt discovered a well-preserved Flavian praesidium. This small and unusually shaped fort, identified in … Read more

20 June 2021 The Board of Trustees The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dear Members of the Board of Trustees: The Classics Department adds its voice to the faculty consensus rising in protest of recent actions and failure … Read more

The Classics Department congratulates all 2020 and 2021 department graduates! To recognize and celebrate the students’ achievements, the department hosted a virtual graduation ceremony on May 16. We wish you well on your journey after graduation. Read more about the … Read more

Congratulations to our 2020-2021 departmental award winners! You can view the prize recipients for the following awards on the Undergraduate Prize Winners page and the Graduate Prize Winners page. The department offers two scholarships in Ancient Greek. The Epps Prize in Greek Studies awards … Read more

Grace Miller, graduating senior, class of 2021 (Combined Latin and Greek Classics major with a Latin Emphasis), is interested in ancient drama, more specifically Greek tragedy and Roman Comedy, and in the portrayal of subaltern life in antiquity. Grace’s interest … Read more

In collaboration with Professor Vered Lev Kenaan (Comparative Literature, Haifa University), Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer has organized an international workshop on “Modern Jewish Receptions of Classical Antiquity” on May 18-20, 2021. The 14 presentations cover a wide range of texts within … Read more

Suzanne Lye has received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for 2021-22 to support a leave to work on the monograph, To Starve and To Curse: Women’s Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic, an exploration of ways in which … Read more

Professor James was one of 17 outstanding University faculty members selected from across the UNC System by the UNC Board of Governors, to receive the 2021 Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The recipients, who represent all 16 of North Carolina’s … Read more

Suzanne Lye has received a Fellowship in Hellenic Studies from the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), to be used in support of work on her second book project, To Starve and To Curse: Women’s Anger in Ancient Greek Literature … Read more

In collaboration with Professor Anna Peterson (Penn State University), Professor Janet Downie presents Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World, an international workshop on the relationship between lived space, society, and power and its depiction in literature. The meeting … Read more