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Welcome to the University of Tennessee's Department of Classics

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!

Events Calendar

Events Calendar



  • 7:30 pm, Tuesday, January 15
    McClung Musem Auditorium
    "Floating Objects on Minoan Seals--The Sequel"
    Dr. Evangelos Kyriakidis
    Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Kent, U.K.


  • 7:30 pm, Thursday, Jan. 31
    McClung Musem Auditorium
    "Using Earth Science to Address Archaeological Questions: Case Studies from the Bronze Age and Beyond"
    Sarah Sherwood
    University of the South


  • 3:30 pm, Friday, February 8
    Great Room, Black Student Center
    "New Light on the Period of the Maccabees: Excavations at Tel Kedesh"
    Andrea Berlin
    University of Minnesota


  • 7:30 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 26
    McClung Museum Audotorium
    "Karphi: a City of Refuge in Dark Age Crete"
    Leslie Preston Day
    Wabash College


  • 4:30 pm, Monday, March 10
    Hodges Library Auditorium
    "Evoking the Past on the Arch of Constantine"
    Noel Lenski
    University of Colorado


  • 6:00 pm, Tuesday, March 11
    McClung Museum Auditorium
    The First Harry C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Archaeology
    "Underwater Archaeology: Exploring the Deep with Scuba, Robots, and Subs"
    Anna Marguerite McCann


  • 7:30 pm, Tuesday, April 8, 2008
    1210/1211 McClung Tower
    "Roasting, Boasting and the Varieties of Greek Invective" Ralph Rosen
    University of Pennsylvania


  • 3:30 PM, Monday, April 21, 2008
    "Why Did Ancient Historians Write?"
    Miriam Griffin
    University of Oxford and Florida State University



Images from ancient Mediterranean cultures

East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

Contact Information

Department of Classics
1101 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Phone: (865) 974-5383
Fax: (865) 974-7173