To help recently admitted Tar Heels connect with the Carolina community and learn more about student life at UNC-Chapel Hill, the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting discipline-specific virtual information sessions in April 2025. Students interested in Classics can … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Classics presents “Preserving Performance in Johanna Hedva’s The Greek Cycle“, a lecture by Dr. Christopher Waldo, assistant professor of the University of Washington’s Department of Classics. The lecture will take … Read more

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

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

For questions and further information, please contact ebaragwanathATuncDOTedu.

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

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

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