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Diversity History Information For... Current Undergraduate Students Current Graduate Students Future Undergraduate Students Future Graduate Students Alumni & Friends Giving Faculty & Staff Classics About the Department News Calendar Faculty & Staff Graduate Students Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Alumni & Friends Research & Projects Outreach Program AIA Chapter Podcasts Tytus Fellowships Nestor Archives Giving Search Classics Login Africana Studies Anthropology Biological Sciences Chemistry Communication English Geography Geology German Studies History Interdisciplinary Programs Journalism Judaic Studies Mathematical Sciences Philosophy Physics Political Science Psychology Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures Sociology Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Department of Classics The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is one of the most active centers for the study of the Greek and Roman Antiquity in the United States. Thirteen full-time faculty members and four research associates 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 t he heart of the Department is the recently renovated Burnam Classical Library , the world's most comprehensive library for advanced research in Classics (with some 275,000 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 an international scholarly journal, the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists , as well as Nestor , a bibliographic resource for Aegean Prehistory, and sponsors continuing series of publications for Pylos, Keos, and Troy. Faculty organize or particiapte in archaeological fieldwork in Greece at Pylos, Knossos, and Isthmia, 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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. follow us on facebook follow us on twitter Upcoming Events Busnelli Dissertation Defense Date: 03.06.2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Calendar: Public Events Undergraduate Lecture: Ruth Caston (Michigan) Date: 04.16.2020 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Calendar: Public Events Latest News Fall 2020 Classics Courses Curious about our course offerings for Fall 2020? Check out our Course Catalog website , which gives you a description of the class, as well as the time, days, instructor, and BoK codes. You can also sort by graduate or undergraduate level courses, Greek or Latin, and specific BoK codes. Graduate Student Trip with the Cincinnati Art Museum Sarah Wenner, a Ph.D. Candidate in Classical Archaeology, recently accompanied the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art, and Antiquities, Ainsley Cameron, on a research trip to Jordan funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The museum, which houses the largest collection of Nabataean material outside of Jordan, has embarked on a multi-year project to reinstall their Ancient Middle East collections. The research trip included visits to Madaba, Petra, the Dead Sea, and Amman, as well as meetings with staff from the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, The Petra Museum, and The Jordan Museum. The group also climbed Khirtbet et-Tannur, a Nabataean temple excavated by Cincinnati-native Nelson Glueck, where they documented the current state of the temple. Graduate Student AIA Award Alice Crowe , a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Department of Classics, has received the Archaeological Institute of America’s Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship in the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean for the AY 2020-2021. The award supports her dissertation project, entitled “Beyond the Walls of the Labyrinth: A Site-wide Perspective on Final Palatial and Postpalatial Knossos,” which is a study of the Greek archaeological site of Knossos (Crete) in the 15th through 12th centuries B.C. Rather than focus on Knossos’ palace, where most scholarly attention has been directed, her dissertation looks at how the site in its entirety functioned, examining developments in both elite and non-elite parts of the city. She analyzes assemblages from the “mansions” and “villas” of Knossos’ city center and material discovered in more peripheral areas of the site, including surface finds collected by an intensive survey of the Knossos valley. During the Fall semester, she will use the award to fund her stay at the Knossos Stratigraphical Museum, where she will examine artifacts held in the museum’s storerooms. Crowe is the third UC Classics graduate student in the last decade to win this award . AIA Opening Night Lecture, Kathleen Lynch On January 2, 2020, Kathleen Lynch gave the "Opening Night Lecture" for the Archaeological Institute of America meetings in Washington, D.C. Her lecture, "Conversations with a Pot Whisperer: Archaeological Ceramics and the Stories they Tell," demonstrated the many ways that archaeological pottery can inform us about its ancient users. She emphasized that p...