‘Truly remarkable:’ Faculty and students remember classics professor Dr. Sharon James
January 12, 2024
Please see the linked article to read more about Sharon’s impact on the University.
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In Memory of Sharon James
December 31, 2023
In Memory of Sharon James by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Ph.D. ’12), Christopher B. Polt (Ph.D. ’10), and Serena S. Witzke (Ph.D. ’14) Sharon L. James, Professor of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill, passed away on Thursday, December 28, 2023. To … Read more
In Memoriam – Sharon Lynn James
December 31, 2023
Sharon Lynn James January 2, 1960 – December 28, 2023 In Memoriam The Department of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill announces with the utmost sadness that our colleague Sharon James died Thursday, December 28. She passed away peacefully at home with her husband Corry … Read more
“Politics of the Past: Rome, Vergil, and Today” Departmental Lecture by Tedd Wimperis, Elon University (UNC PhD ’17)
September 15, 2022
On Wednesday, 28 September 2022, Tedd Wimperis, Assistant Professor at Elon University (who received his PhD in Classics from UNC in 2017) returns to Chapel Hill to present a lecture entitled “Politics of the Past: Rome, Vergil, and Today,” as … Read more
Classics at Carolina 2022
September 9, 2022
Contact Emily Baragwanath if you have any questions regarding this event.
Graduate Students of Fall 2022
August 12, 2022
Welcome back everyone! We look forward to having a great semester with all of you.
Classics majors Emily Rose Bratt, Jenna Rae D’Amico, and Arjun Charles Guidroz to be initiated into the Alpha of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
April 26, 2022
Emily is a junior majoring in Classics, concentrating in Greek and Latin. Her academic interests include Augustan poetry and gender, sexuality, and class in antiquity. She is currently the president of Eta Sigma Phi. Jenna is … Read more
Faculty Tea Talk Series: Emily Baragwanath, “Supplanting Pandora: Xenophon on Mothers” (Monday, April 11, 1:20 pm)
April 7, 2022
Monday, April 11, 1:20 pm (MU 104 with Zoom feed, link below) Professor Emily Baragwanath will present as part of our Faculty Tea Talk Series: “Supplanting Pandora: Xenophon on Mothers” This paper addresses Xenophon’s strategies for disarming the negative emotions … Read more
Guest Lecture: Emily Pillinger and Hugh Bowden, King’s College London, “Literary and Historical Perspectives on Prophesy in the Classical Period”
April 7, 2022
On March 31 at 3.30, Dr. Emily Pillinger, author of Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019) showed how both Cassandra and the Cumaean Sibyl are female prophets involved in acts of … Read more
Professor Al Duncan to give Carolina Public Humanities talk at Wayne Community College
April 7, 2022
At 5:30pm on Monday, March 14, Al Duncan presented a talk entitled “Acting Like Animals: Lessons (and Laughs) about Being Human from Aesop, Aristophanes, and the Ancient Greeks” as part of Carolina Public Humanities’ Spring 2022 events calendar. The presentation … Read more