Trading Worlds at Sea: Transcultural Polytheism and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean Barbara Kowalzig Associate Professor of Classics and History, NYU 23 February 3:30-5:00 PM In-Person primarily: Mitchell 205 Zoom if necessary: 955 9219 5365 Passcode: UNCRELI This paper introduces … Read more

Mathias Hanses (Pennsylvania State University) will present a lecture in Prof. Bob Babcock’s Cicero class, LATN 222 on Friday the 11th of February at 2:30 p.m. His talk will be on W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk and … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill Classics faculty, graduate students, Ph.D.s, and undergraduate alumni will be well-represented at the 118th meeting of CAMWS (The Classical Association of the Middle West and South) that will take place March 23-26, 2022, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at … Read more

Emily Baragwanath will be the keynote speaker at the the upcoming U of Georgia undergraduate Classics conference, ’The Evolving Hero’, sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi, on March 26, 2022. Emily’s paper, ‘Supplanting Pandora: Rewriting Female Heroism in Greek Myth and … Read more

Emily Baragwanath will provide commentary on and critique of three recently-published books on Xenophon’s Socrates at the upcoming panel organized by the International Plato Society at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, at the Palmer House Hilton … Read more

Undergrads, please sign up! The competitions were cancelled in 2021 because of Covid, so there will be FOUR winners this Spring! THE ALBERT SUSKIN PRIZE IN LATIN The Suskin Prize is in memory of Albert I. Suskin, first a student … Read more

Justin Hadad ’21, who was a double major in Applied Physics & Economics, and a Latin minor who co-founded a website on the Latin poet Propertius and did a summer research project that involved the American Academy in Rome, has … Read more

The Department mourns the passing of our dear friend and colleague Kenneth J. Reckford, Kenan Professor of Classics Emeritus, at the age of 88.  Kenneth taught at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1960-2003 and left an indelible mark on the Department and … Read more

Kenneth J. Reckford offers a feast for mind and spirit  By Philip Stadter in the Fall 2002 Department newsletter Tabulae.  In forty-three years of teaching at Chapel Hill, Prof. Kenneth Reckford has always delighted students and friends with his endless … Read more

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Classics Undergraduate Prizes and Awards Spring 2022 PRIZE COMPETITIONS IN LATIN AND GREEK THE HERINGTON PRIZE IN GREEK & LATIN— The Herington Greek and Latin Poetry Prizes, established in 1999 by … Read more