Princeton Classics

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.

Haubold and Helle's "Enuma Elish" reviewed in TLS

"Fortunately, the introduction and thirteen accompanying essays make a masterly case for it as a remarkable example of carefully structured verse, and for its poet as a highly skilled and innovative writer. They leave no doubt that, technically and intellectually, Enuma elish was in its day a tour de force. Three thousand years later, this excellent little book helps us see why."

A mushhushshu-dragon, a symbol of the God Marduk

Events

Special Event
A New Translation of The Odyssey
Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Yelena Baraz
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 6:00 pm
Location
Labyrinth Books
Lecture
New Excavations at Pompeii: Seasonality and Non-Elite Lifestyles
Allison Emmerson
Monday, April 21, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010

Faculty Publications