The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Classics presents “Xenophon on the Trial of Socrates”, a lecture by Professor David M. Johnson, a professor of Classics, School Languages & Literature at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The talk … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Classics Department presents “Persius’ Funeral Feast: Satire 6 & the Death of the Satirist” by Professor Kate Meng Brassel of the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Classical Studies. The talk will take … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Classics presents “Writing from exile: Greek pseudepigrapha in Ovid’s Tristia and Ex Ponto”, a talk by Professor Irene Peirano Garrison. She is The Pope Professor of the Latin Language and … Read more

Rachel Sarvey, a fourth-year Classical Archaeology major at UNC, has been awarded the Salisbury Family Honors Thesis Research Award from Honors Carolina in support of her senior honors thesis research project, “Egyptian Amphora Stamps from the Hellenistic Period,” a study … Read more

The Department of Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is delighted to advertise the following position.  We’d be grateful if you could share the advertisement widely!   Latin Poetry and Critical Theory The Department of Classics … Read more

Does rhythm have meaning? This talk explores correlations between poetic meter and themes of “sweetness” in the epic poetry of archaic Greece. Using novel computational techniques, it argues that Greek epic modulates its rhythm to reinforce important topics, such as … Read more

Here’s to an excellent school year!

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The Daily Tar Heel reports on The Greek Tragedy in the Community project, being spear-headed by Michael Vazques (Philosophy/Parr Center) and artistically directed by Kari Lindquist (PhD candidate in Music). A collaboration with Maynard Adams Fellow Kari Lindquist, Department of Music, … Read more

Carolina Public Humanities Seminar Emily Baragwanath will be joining Jonathan Weiler on March 2, 2024 at the Rizzo Center for a Carolina Public Humanities seminar and panel discussion about crises of democracy in Ancient Athens and Modern America.  Democracies are … Read more