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 Supratik Baralay appointed assistant professor of Classics Princeton Classics is elated to announce the appointment of Dr. Supratik Baralay to a new tenure-track position as assistant professor of Classics. An ancient historian specializing in Parthian imperialism and Silk Road studies, Dr. Baralay marks a significant expansion in the department’s scope of teaching and research. Award Classics alumna Joy Connolly '91 to be recognized at 2025 GradFUTURES Forum Appointment Hanna Gołąb *17 appointed Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania Events Mar 27 Lecture Politics and the Art of Lying in Horace's Odes Peter Heslin Thursday, March 27, 2025, 4:30 pm Location East Pyne 010 Mar 28 Lecture From Science to Narrative: Pottery Production and Social Dynamics in Archaic Rome Mattia D'Acri Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:00 pm Location 209 Scheide Caldwell Mar 29 Symposium Consuming Ecologies: Environment and Society in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Environmental History Lab Saturday, March 29, 2025, 10:00 am Location Julis Romo Rabinowitz Room A17 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.
