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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

The UNC Department of Classics presents Menander’s Tyche and the Fortunes of Ancient Greek Poetry Anna Uhlig, University of California, Davis Thursday, 23 March 2023, 5:00pm MU 104 Over the course of the twentieth century – the so-called “century of papyrology” – … Read more

How should we cope with life’s vicissitudes? Do forces outside of our control impinge upon our ability to live meaningful and good lives? Are love and reason fundamentally at odds with each other? Join the Department of Philosophy and the … Read more

The Department of Philosophy and the Department of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill are pleased to invite you to join us for a two-part discussion series (free & open to the public) at Flyleaf Books that will cover the social … Read more

  How does Herodotus’ Histories explain the success of the Greeks against the vastly superior force of the Persians? This talk discusses an important but neglected causal motif in the work, that of surpassing physis (‘nature’). It also demonstrates Herodotus’ … Read more

  As part of the Department of Classics Visiting Lecture Series, Professor Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University) will present on his research on connectivity in the ancient Mediterranean. In Dr. Leidwanger’s words: “Contemporary scholarship on the ancient Mediterranean world routinely invokes … Read more

UNC Department of Classics: Herington Poetry Reading Tuesday, November 1st, 2022, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Murphey 104 Information and Requirements are as follows: Prizes of $250 will be awarded to the winners, one in Greek and one in Latin. All … Read more