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. Eighteen full-time faculty members, four research associates, and four 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.
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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Zoe Stamatopoulou on Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages
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!
Head of Periander, Tyrant of Corinth, and one of the seven wise men of Greece. Roman copy of a lost original of the 4th century. Cook 2013, nr. 266 -
An NHC fellowship for Danielle Kellogg!
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/
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Antigone co-directed by Anna Conser
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. -
First issue of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies produced at Cincinnati
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
Public Lecture: Mirielle Lee on MAPRA & the illicit antiquities trade
The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance (MAPRA) brings together subject matter experts, academics, museum professionals, and data scientists to create transparency around academic collections. MAPRA is an initiative of the Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH) of which Lee is the founder and executive director.