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
Contact Emily Baragwanath if you have any questions regarding this event.
Welcome back everyone! We look forward to having a great semester with all of you.
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
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
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
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
Al Duncan remotely presented a paper on March 3, “Rags of Defeat: Materializing Failure in Aristophanes’ Acharnians,” at the international conference Materialität und Medialität: Aspekte einer Anderen Äesthetik (Materiality and Mediality: aspects of a Different Aesthetics), co-organized by Jan Stellman … Read more
April 4th (Monday) at 4:40 PM on Zoom In 200 B.C., the Athenians, under increasing external pressure, abandoned the policy of strict external neutrality which they had pursued since 229, when they literally bought back their freedom from the Macedonians. … Read more
James Rives will present a paper at a conference on P. Nigidius Figulus, a friend of Cicero, a die-hard political opponent of Julius Caesar, and a remarkable scholar with a wide range of interests. The conference, which will be conducted … Read more