Archaeology: Griffin Warrior was likely a local aristocrat
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 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.
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 31, 2024
The University of Cincinnati’s Jack Davis, Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek archaeology in the department of Classics, has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With this honor, Davis joins the ranks of luminaries such as U.S. president John Adams (elected in 1780), language scholar Noah Webster (of dictionary fame, tapped in 1799), and more currently playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actor and philanthropist George Clooney. Begun just four years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, when the U.S. was comprised of 13 colonies, the academy was established by founding fathers in Cambridge, MA.
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.
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.
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.
January 6, 2025
The Greek Reporter reported that Bronze Age artifacts discovered by UC Classics Professor Jack Davis and Senior Research Associate Sharon Stocker will go on public display for the first time in Greece in February. They include a sealstone made of agate depicting mortal combat that Archaeology Magazine called a "Bronze Age masterpiece."
May 19, 2025
A University of Cincinnati expert in ancient Greek wants to produce the most authentic performance of the play “Antigone” that audiences have heard in nearly 2,500 years.
May 7, 2025
A Classics researcher at the University of Cincinnati is using state-of-the-art technology to learn more about the mass production and placement of votives in ancient Greece.