March 7, 2024
Housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, the classics program is filled to the brim with world-renowned faculty and access to many professional resources. Many classics students began their UC experience outside of classics but came to love the variety of skills and lessons to learn.
May 1, 2024
The Cincinnati Enquirer highlights a rare book found in a University of Cincinnati library that chronicled a high-profile murder trial in 1929.
July 17, 2024
UC Classics archivist Jeff Kramer examined the unheralded and largely uncredited role laborers played in the 1930s excavation at Troy in Turkey.
March 20, 2025
The Greek Reporter talks about the 2006 discovery of a curse jar by a UC Classics student during an excavation of an Athens marketplace.
May 12, 2025
The Greek Reporter and other news outlets highlighted work by the University of Cincinnati's Department of Classics using experimental archaeology to explore rites behind Bronze Age figurines discovered at Anavlochos, Crete.
April 25, 2025
UC Classics Professor Steven Ellis talks to the podcast When in Rome about his excavations in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was entombed in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
August 30, 2022
Archaeology magazine highlights UC Classics' discovery using ancient DNA that the Griffin Warrior was from the part of Europe that he one day would come to rule.
August 25, 2022
Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up around the seaside city he would one day rule.
August 8, 2022
National Geographic highlights the University of Cincinnati's 2015 discoveries of a warrior's tomb that are helping to reveal secrets of ancient Greece.
June 10, 2025
MSN highlights UC Classics research in Pompeii that showed ancient Romans traded exotic animals such as giraffes. Professor Steven Ellis discovered giraffe bones while excavating the ancient city entombed in ash from a volcanic eruption.