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
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
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
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
Al Duncan discusses his work on the ancient theater with UNC College of Arts and Sciences. Unpacking the nuances of ancient Greek and Roman theater – College of Arts and Sciences (unc.edu)
Luciana Villas Bôas is Professor of Anglo-Germanic Languages at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and at the Graduate Program of Germanic Languages at the Universidade de São Paulo. She is the author of Wilde Beschriftungen. Brasiliens historische Semantik … Read more