Professor Hérica Valladares’ monograph, Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2021), connects the emergence of Latin love elegy and a new, tender style in Roman wall painting in the late first century B.C.E. Tenderness is … Read more

The Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study at University of London, has awarded Patricia Rosenmeyer the Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship for 2020-21. The Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship commemorates the contribution of a pioneering figure in UK classics. The Fellowship is … Read more

On October 29, 2020, UNC Classics hosted Prof. Patrice Rankine in a Zoom Q&A with graduate students and faculty during a class session of CLAS 720: “Methods, Resources and Perspectives”. Patrice Rankine is Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts … Read more

(Virtual) Lectures in Art History Timothy Shea, Duke University and UNC at Chapel Hill “Fictive Funerary Landscapes? Mourning Scenes on Athenian Funerary Vessels in Context” October 20, 2020, 6:30 PM Register to attend here Zoom link will be emailed to … Read more

Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster will be giving a virtual lecture October 11 at 2 PM with the North Carolina Museum of Art. Continue reading to find out more and remember to register here.

Teaching Assistant Amanda Ball has been awarded the Cecil W. Wooten Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching. This is a new annual award given to a graduate student in the Department of Classics who has demonstrated excellence in teaching.  … Read more

Ph.D. Candidate Brandon Baker is the 2020 recipient of the Olivia James Traveling Fellowship award from the Archaeological Institute of America. Baker intends to travel and study on the island of Evia in Greece. His project will explore “the Roman … Read more

The Herington Greek and Latin Poetry Prizes, established in 1999 by Maynard and Florence Mack in memory of John Herington, are awarded for the best oral performance of assigned passages of Greek and Latin poetry. There are two cash prizes, … Read more

Dr. Joy Reeber, a 2004 UNC graduate, reports on an online debate about racial diversity and inclusivity which sparked after the Society for Classical Studies’ annual meeting. She includes a conversation with Arum Park, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies … Read more