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 Thu Truong awarded Winkler Memorial Prize Princeton Classics is pleased to congratulate graduate student Thu Truong on being named the 2025 winner of the John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for her paper “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation.” Among the nation's most prestigious student accolades, the Prize is given to the best essay by a classics student in a risky or marginal field of classical studies. Appointment Paul Eberwine *25 joins faculty of William & Mary Featured Haubold and Helle's "Enuma Elish" reviewed in TLS Events Apr 24 Lecture What does Jean-Michel Basquiat have to do with Socrates, the Punic Wars & Hypatia of Alexandria? An interpretation of Jawbone of an Ass (1982) Gábor Betegh Thursday, April 24, 2025, 12:00 pm Location Scheide Caldwell 209 Apr 29 Conference / Workshop After Babylon The Legacies of Cuneiform Culture Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 9:00 am May 1 Lecture The New Euripides Papyrus (P.Phil.nec 23 verso): The Agon in Polyidos Ioanna Karamanou Thursday, May 1, 2025, 4:30 pm Location East Pyne 161 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.
