On Wednesday, 28 September 2022, Tedd Wimperis, Assistant Professor at Elon University (who received his PhD in Classics from UNC in 2017) returns to Chapel Hill to present a lecture entitled “Politics of the Past: Rome, Vergil, and Today,” as … 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
Together with Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete) Emily Baragwanath has organized a three-day international panel on the topic of “Xenophon and Genre, Genres in Xenophon” in the framework of the Celtic Classics Conference, Lyon, France, July 18-21, 2022. The panel … Read more
The purpose of this talk is to address a normally overlooked aspect of Xenophon’s corpus, namely, his treatment of humor. Studies of ancient Greek theories on humor primarily engage with Plato and Aristotle. This is understandable, as both philosophers overtly … Read more
My paper examines the difference between Aristaeus’ success and Orpheus’ failure in the Georgics. Why does Aristaeus succeed in generating a new hive of bees while Orpheus fails to resurrect Eurydice? Some scholars understand the key difference to be a … Read more
Come join us! When? Tuesday March 1st, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm Where? Murphey Hall, Room 116 (or watch live via Zoom: https://unc.zoom.us/j/96359843411) Prizes of $250 will be awarded to the winners, one in Greek and one in Latin. All undergraduates taking … Read more