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
- 7:30 pm, Tuesday October 6
McClung Museum Auditorium
"Maritime Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean: Two Archaic Shipwrecks at Pabuc Burnu and Kekova Adasi, Turkey"
Elizabeth Greene
Brock University, Ontario - 7:30 pm, Thursday October 29
McClung Museum Auditorium
"Olympia Before the Temple of Zeus"
Judith Barringer
University of Edinburgh - 3:30, Tuesday November 24
1210/1211 McClung Tower
"Recent Applications of Near-Surface Geophysical Imaging in Archaeology"
Gregory S. Baker
Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of Tennessee
Contact Information
Department of Classics
1101 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413
Phone: (865) 974-5383
Fax: (865) 974-7173