Department of Classics

Velvet Yates (Classics) will report on her directed three-week study in Naxos under sculptor Maggie Ross on using the ancient 3-caliper method of stone-carving. Rachel Polinsky (Ph.D. candidate, Art and Art History) will examine the Korai—standing, clothed, female statues— that appear in votive and funerary contexts throughout Greece during the Archaic period.

Join us on December 2, 2022 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. for a Classics Graduate Distance Program Zoom Open House!

Join us for a lecture by Silvia Montiglio (John Hopkins University) on Friday, January 27 at 4:00 p.m. at the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall. This lecture is part of the UF Center for Greek Studies Polopolus Lecture Series 2023. The lectures are open to the public.

Join Christine Plastow (The Open University, UK), for the first session of the Spring 2023 Cassas Seminar Series in Greek Law and Society series, which takes place on Tuesdays in February at 12 noon.

Join Georgia Choustoulaki (University of Crete, Greece), for the second session of the Spring 2023 Cassas Seminar Series in Greek Law and Society series, which takes place on Tuesdays in February at 12 noon.

Join David Phillips (University of California, LA), for the third session of the Spring 2023 Cassas Seminar Series in Greek Law and Society series, which takes place on Tuesdays in February at 12 noon.

Join Andy Wolpert (University of Florida), for the fourth and final session of the Spring 2023 Cassas Seminar Series in Greek Law and Society series, which takes place on Tuesdays in February at 12 noon.

Join us for a lecture by Michael Gagarin (University of Texas) on Friday, March 24 at 4:00 p.m. at the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall. This lecture is part of the UF Center for Greek Studies Polopolus Lecture Series 2023. The lectures are open to the public.

Join us for a lecture by Professor Maurizio Forte on Friday, March 31 at 4:00 p.m. at the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall. Maurizio Forte is the William and Sue Gross Professor of Classical Studies Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. A digital and neuro-archaeologist, Forte is the founder of the DIG@Lab, and a pioneer in the development of virtual reality tools for archaeologists.

The TEDxUF team would like to formally invite you to TEDxUF 2023: Illumination, our 14th annual conference which will be held in person on April 1st at the University Auditorium here on campus!

Join us on April 14th at 4 p.m. in the Keene Faculty Center for the Center for Greek Studies Awards Ceremony.

CALL FOR PAPERS! Join us at the conference in ancient Rome, Italy to understand how multilingualism in the ancient world has been of great interest to linguists and literary scholars alike.