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 third 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
- Unruly Letters and Unbound Texts,” the fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop, organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English), will take place on February 5-6.
- The Third Harry C. Rutledge Lecture in Archaeology
Professor Mary Sturgeon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"New Sculpture from the Acropolis of Stymphalos, Greece,” will take place at7:30 pm, Tuesday, February 16, McClung Museum Auditorium.
Events Calendar
- January 26 @ 7:30P
Aleydis Van de Moortel, UT Classics
"Recent Discoveries at the Prehistoric Site of Mitrou, Greece." - Third Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology
February 16 @ 7:30P
Mary Sturgeon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "New Sculpture from the Acropolis of Stymphalos, Greece. - March 2 @ 7:30P
Rui Boaventura, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, Portugal
"Death and burial during the Middle and Late Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula: Case Studies in the region of Lisbon (Portugal)." AIA Lecturer. Venue TBA. - March 16 @ 7:30P
Nejib Ben Lazreg, Tunisian archaeologist. Institut du patrimoine, Tunis. Title TBA. Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecturer co-sponsored by MARCO. - March 23 @ 7:30P
Jaime Awe, Director of Institute of Archaeology in the National Institute of Culture and History of Belize, Lecture on Mayan caves, Title TBA. - The Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Classics
March 29@ 3:30P
Black Cultural Center
Christina Shuttlesworth Kraus, Thatcher Professor of Latin and Chair of Classics, Yale University
"In the castra with the lead pipe: Fetishizing Roman Britain" - April 6 @ 7:30P
Elizabeth DeCorse, UT Archaeological Research Lab
"Morgan Hill: Front Line of the Confederacy in the Battle of Fort Sanders."
Contact Information
Department of Classics
1101 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413
Phone: (865) 974-5383
Fax: (865) 974-7173