Welcome to the UT Department of Classics!
Welcome to the Classics website. This is the department where students study not only Greek and Latin, but also the ancient Mediterranean world in all its aspects. In space, this means the Mediterranean basin and areas contiguous to it; in range of time, this means from the middle of the second millennium BCE to the middle of the first millennium CE. These boundaries are extended by the collaborative work we undertake with archaeologists in the Departments of Anthropology and History and with medievalists in the Departments of English, History, and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. The end result is an enormous span of times, places, and methods, as we tackle not only the languages and literatures of antiquity, but also all aspects of material culture as we can capture it through our work in archaeology, social history, cultural studies, economics, and so on.
We hope that visitors to this site will learn more about the regular courses that we offer, the various tracks of undergraduate and graduate study, and the varied expertises of the faculty. If you are in Knoxville, we hope you will drop in and see us!
Classics Notes
Events Calendar
- Tuesday September 16, 2008
"Excavation of the Civil War Submarine H.L. Hunley: Reconstructing an 1864 Crime Site"
Maria Jacobsen
Clemson University - Tuesday October 14, 2008
"Messages in Stone. Roman Mosaics in Social and Architectural Context"
Susan Stevens
Randolph Macon Women's College - Friday October 31, 2008
The Twenty-third Rutledge Memorial Lecture
"Rome, Ruins, and Memory: Lessons from Livy"
Alain Gowing
University of Washington - Wednesday November 12, 2008
David Levene
New York University - Tuesday November 18, 2008
Title TBA (On Illuminated MSS)
Father Justin Sinaitis
St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai - Thursday November 20, 2008
"Garage Sale or Royal Shipment? The Ceramic Cargo of the Uluburun Shipwreck"
Nicolle Hirschfeld
Trinity College, San Antonio
Contact Information
Department of Classics
1101 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413
Phone: (865) 974-5383
Fax: (865) 974-7173