Professor Al Duncan’s forthcoming book, Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek Drama, was profiled in the November 14, 2024 publication of UNC Research Stories (formerly Endeavors Magazine). The book, Duncan’s first, is due out in February 2025 from the University … Read more
Emily Baragwanath was one of nine UNC researchers awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Grant to support her participation in an international workshop looking anew at Socrates’ Trial, Politics, and Religion, to be held at Piryoi Thermis, Lesbos, Greece, in … Read more
Shortly after her promotion in 2013, Emily Baragwanath joined the Institute for the Arts and Humanities’ Associate Professor Program, finding community with fellow faculty. Hailing from the classics department, Baragwanath was glad to meet other faculty at the same rank … Read more
A recent edition of UNC Chapel Hill’s digital newsletter, The Well, cast a spotlight on Professor Duncan’s fully-online Maymester course, CLAS 263: Athletics in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, offered just before this summer’s 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. … Read more
Prof. Duncan contributed a chapter, on the staging and creative reuse of materials in Aristophanic comedy, to a recently published volume co-edited by Matthew C. Farmer and Jeremy B. Lefkowitz.
Emily Baragwanath will be talking about Xenophon and Politics in the anthology of Johannes Stobaeus of Macedonia at an international workshop (in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, May 2-4) examining the principles and techniques behind the … Read more
Emily Baragwanath gave a paper entitled ‘Clio’s challenge to Melpomene: Female Agency and Family (Dys)function in Herodotus’ at Clio and her Elder Sisters, a symposium in honour of Richard Rutherford, organized by Anna Clark and Bruno Currie. The colloquium took … Read more
Come meet students and faculty from the UNC Classics Department and learn more about our majors and minors, student groups, courses and awards, research and travel opportunities, and careers after Classics. All are welcome, and there is no need to … Read more
This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. This month’s featured book is “Dig It!: Archaeology for Kids” by UNC alumna Caitlin Sockin, with contributions from Carolina faculty members Benjamin S. Arbuckle and Hérica Valladares. … Read more
Professor Emily Baragwanath will be speaking about ‘Xenophon’s Women at Home’ at Wake Forest University, Department of Classics, on Monday, March 20, 3.30-5pm, Tribble A303. The talk arises from a couple of chapters of her nearly-completed monograph, which investigates the … Read more