Why Classics? : Learn More Studying Classics in the modern day. Learn More Newsletter : Read More Classics Department annual report Read More Pyrphoros : Read More Princeton's Undergraduate Classics Journal Read More 1 / 3 Start animation ▶ ︎ ︎ The Princeton Classics Department investigates the history, language, literature, and thought of ancient Greece and Rome. We use the perspectives of multiple disciplines to understand and imagine the diversity of these civilizations over almost two thousand years and to reflect on what the classical past has meant to later ages, and to our own. Undergraduate Program Major or minor, study abroad, or join the Classics Club Graduate Program Tracks in Literature, Medieval Studies, History, Philosophy & Reception People Meet our faculty, students, staff, emeriti, visitors, and affiliates Courses Lectures, workshops, and seminars across subfields and disciplines Jermaine Bryant appointed to Harvard Society of Fellows Princeton Classics is proud to announce that our program’s latest graduate, Dr. Jermaine Bryant, has been appointed to the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. Bryant joins a small body of Latinists ever to have been named to the Society, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious postdoctoral positions. Dr. Jermaine Bryant Featured Author Q&A: Luke Soucy ’19 on "Ovid’s Metamorphoses" Edward Champlin, eminent Roman history scholar and ‘powerful mentor,’ dies at 76 Events Feb 8 Special Event Princeton Certamen Saturday, February 8, 2025, 9:00 am Location McCosh 50 Feb 15 Special Event The Return: Q&A with director Uberto Pasolini with Barbara Graziosi Saturday, February 15, 2025, 7:00 pm Location Princeton Garden Theatre Mar 28 Lecture From Science to Narrative: Pottery Production and Social Dynamics in Archaic Rome Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:00 pm Location 209 Scheide Caldwell View All Events Faculty Publications Tiberius & His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and Power - Edward Champlin, Princeton University Press, 2024Rome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE–CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was—and was seen by contemporaries to be—recognizably human and far more complex than the monster of the hostile tradition that began with Tacitus and Suetonius. Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Johannes Haubold, Sophus Helle, Enrique Jiménez & Selena Wisnom, 2024Acting as a companion to the poem, the book provides readers with the tools they need to explore Enuma Elish in greater depth. Essays cover important historical and contextual information, offer discussions of key topics and explanations of technical terms, as well as suggestions of relevant further reading. The book's interpretive and reflective approach, which pays special attention to questions of poetic style, intertextual resonance, and literary and cultural significance, encourages a greater understanding of the poem as a work of literature while remaining grounded in philology. Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading - Ilaria Marchesi, Oxford University Press 2024Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close readings of Martial's poems and their contextualization through legal, historiographic, rhetorical, and grammatical discussions.