The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is one of the most active and largest centers for the study of the Greek and Roman Antiquity in the United States. Seventeen full-time faculty members, four research associates, and two Rawson Visiting Scholars specialize in Classical philology, ancient history, and archaeology, including Greek prehistory.
About thirty-five graduate students are in residence at any given time, while others spend a year or more abroad to study or conduct research. In the heart of the Department is the recently renovated Burnam Classical Library, the world's most comprehensive library for advanced research in Classics (with some 300,000 volumes). The department's Tytus Fellowships bring an additional nine to twelve researchers to the Department each year, in addition to many shorter-term visitors. About thirty undergraduate majors profit from the vibrant scholarly community, while an Outreach Program takes faculty and graduate students to more than 100 area schools each year. The department's lecture series, including those sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, attract audiences from the larger academic and lay community in the Cincinnati area. The Department edits Nestor, a bibliographic resource for Aegean Prehistory, and sponsors continuing series of publications for Pylos, Keos, and Troy. Faculty organize or participate in archaeological fieldwork in Greece at Pylos, Knossos, Isthmia, Anavlochos and the Athenian Agora, in Italy at Pompeii and Tharros in Sardinia, in Turkey at Gordion, and in Israel at Caesarea Maritima.
The Cincinnati Difference
What will you find in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and nowhere else?
- Six or seven years of guaranteed funding, at a level well above subsistence in low-cost Cincinnati
- Personalized professional development and mentorship
- In-person and online teaching experience suited to your needs and development
- Non-teaching service assignments in the first two years, and a dissertation year at the end
- A carefully designed and flexible ancient languages curriculum, allowing either fast passage or up to four years for mastery
- The world-renowned John Miller Burnam Classics Library, with over 300,000 monographs and 2,000 active periodical subscriptions
- The award-winning Outreach Program, now in its second decade
- The Tytus Scholars program, hosting 9 new visiting Classics scholars from around the world every year
- Excavation opportunities under Cincinnati permits in Greece and Italy
Learn more about our Faculty, Ph.D. and MA tracks in Ancient History, Bronze Age and Classical Archaeology, and Greek and Latin Philology. You may also browse our graduate course cycles, and check out detailed policy about our graduate programs in our Graduate Handbook. See more here about the Burnam Library, the Tytus Fellows program, and our Outreach program.
Contact
Department of Classics
410 Blegen Library
PO Box 210226
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0226
Phone | (513) 556-3050
Fax | (513) 556-4366
classics@uc.edu
Latest News
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In Process: Anna Conser with Patrick Burns
Anna Conser presents her draft chapter "Accent Patterns in Tragic Lyric: A Computational Study” at the Taft research Center on Thursday, February 20 at 10 AM.
Patrick Burns (ISAW) will then respond and open the discussion to the seminar participants.
Registration is required: https://taft.center/3ExhNLK.
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Aegean Celebration 2
Please join us for our Aegean Celebration 2, on the occasion of the transfer of the Aegaeum series and the International Aegean Conferences to UC Classics, the appointment of Professor Robert Laffineur as a Rawson Visiting Scholar, and the 30th anniversary of the arrival of Nestor, the bibliography in Aegean studies, to UC Classics.The event will take place on March 13th at 5:00-6:30 pm in Blegen 308.2025 MetaClassics lecture
Please join us for the 2025 MetaClassics lecture, presented by the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center and the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, on Tuesday, March 4, 12:30 PM, at the Taft Research Center!
This year’s speaker is Professor Kelly Nguyen of UCLA, who will deliver a lecture titled, “What is ‘Classics’ to a Vietnamese Refugee?”
If you are interested in attending the lecture virtually, please email caitlin.hines@uc.edu for the registration link.
"Princes of Pylos" on display in Kalamata
Patrick Burns (ISAW) Lecture at Taft Center
Date: 02.20.2025 4:30 pmCalendar: Public EventsPlease note that this lecture will take place at the Taft Center.On Thursday (2/20) at 4:30 pm, Dr. Patrick Burns (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) will be giving a public lecture at the Taft Center for the Humanities. His lecture will address how new developments in digital language processing can be applied to Latin corpora (full abstract below).The Digital Afterlife of a Dead Language: Or Recovering 34 Billion(!) Latin Words from AI Training DataLatin has been a perhaps unexpected beneficiary of recently published Large Language Model (LLM) training datasets. For example, an artificial intelligence firm just released a text repository advertising 34 billion Latin tokens—a number over 5,000 times larger than a comprehensive repository of canonically classical Latin like the Perseus...Dana Munteanu: Characters in the EN and the Poet. The case of Neoptolemus.
Date: 03.06.2025 5:00 pm - 6:30 pmCalendar: Public Events
