Many congratulations to Prof. Caitlin Hines and Prof. Calloway Scott on their tenure and promotion to associate professor!
Wishing them both continued success in this exciting new chapter!
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We share with great sadness the passing of Gisela E. Walberg, Marion Rawson Professor of Aegean Prehistory Emerita in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, who died on July 24 at the age of 83.
A distinguished Bronze Age Aegean archaeologist, professor Walberg joined the University of Cincinnati Classics faculty in 1979. She remained an active and prolific scholar, as well as a dedicated teacher and mentor, until her retirement in 2011. Her many contributions to the field included directing excavations at Midea in Greece and Episkopi-Bamboula in Cyprus.
Beyond her scholarly achievements, she was also known for her kindness, generosity, and commitment to animal welfare.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, August 4, at the Spring Grove Cemetery’s Norman Chapel at 9:00 a.m., with a funeral service following at 10:00 a.m.
For additional information, please see the following two obituaries:
https://tributearchive.com/obituaries/49096866/dr-gisela-elizabeth-walberg/cincinnati/ohio/spring-grove-funeral-homes
Congratulation to Zoe Stamatopoulou, who was invited to present a lecture titled "Progeny and Prodigy in Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages" on April 6, at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Classics!
Many congratulations to Danielle Kellogg on being awarded an NHC fellowship for her project on Mobility, Citizenship, and the Athenian Democracy!
For more information on this prestigious grant, see https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/the-national-humanities-center-announces-2026-27-fellows/
CCM's Play Series presents Sophocles' ANTIGONE in collaboration with the UC Classics Department, April 9-11, co-directed by Anna Conser, Brant Russell and Samuel Stricklen.
The first issue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies produced entirely at the University of Cincinnati has just been published.
Founded at Harvard in 1958, the journal is dedicated to the literature and history of Greek-speaking peoples from the Bronze Age through the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This issue includes articles on legal proceedings in Classical Athens, Plutarch’s moral philosophy, an epitome of Aristotle, Byzantine book epigrams, and a previously unpublished Byzantine poem describing a toothache.
This open-access journal is edited by Marion Kruse and Zoe Stamatopoulou.
The current issue can be found here: https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/issue/view/2317
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