DATE CHANGE: Joe Goodkin, “Blues of Achilles” Wednesday, October 20th An Adaptation of the Iliad in Song. Join us for a live performance of Joe Goodkin’s original composition, a retelling of Homer’s Iliad in seventeen songs: “The Blues of Achilles.” … Read more

The Classics department is pleased to announce a virtual workshop, organized as part of Professor Jen Gates-Foster’s collaboration with the ERC-funded Desert Networks Project. The purpose of this workshop is to create an analytical framework for understanding the complex and … Read more

Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer will present a lecture on Latin epistolography for the Mahindra Center Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome at Harvard University on September 29, 2021. This talk explores how Roman letter writers (Cicero, Seneca, Ovid) … Read more

In collaboration with Professor Vered Lev Kenaan (Comparative Literature, Haifa University), Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer has organized an international workshop on “Modern Jewish Receptions of Classical Antiquity” on May 18-20, 2021. The 14 presentations cover a wide range of texts within … Read more

In collaboration with Professor Anna Peterson (Penn State University), Professor Janet Downie presents Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World, an international workshop on the relationship between lived space, society, and power and its depiction in literature. The meeting … Read more

Professor Suzanne Lye presents “Hidden Women and Authorial Commentary: The Poetics of the Pause in Ancient Underworld Scenes” at the Columbia University Department of Classics, Classics Colloquium. Hidden Women and Authorial Commentary: The Poetics of the Pause in Ancient Underworld … Read more

Jen Gates-Foster will present “Dispatches from B’ir Samut: Blemmyes, Trogodytes and the new textual and archaeological evidence for the indigenous peoples of the Egyptian Eastern Desert in the third century BCE,” at the Archaeology Center at Stanford University, Wednesday, March … Read more

(Virtual) Lectures in Art History Timothy Shea, Duke University and UNC at Chapel Hill “Fictive Funerary Landscapes? Mourning Scenes on Athenian Funerary Vessels in Context” October 20, 2020, 6:30 PM Register to attend here Zoom link will be emailed to … Read more

Professor Jennifer Gates-Foster will be giving a virtual lecture October 11 at 2 PM with the North Carolina Museum of Art. Continue reading to find out more and remember to register here.