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 In Conversation with Uberto Pasolini: From Homer’s “Odyssey” to Film and Media Studies at Princeton Princeton enjoyed a special screening of The Return and discussion with the film’s director, Uberto Pasolini, and Barbara Graziosi, Chair of the Classics Department, along with Rachael DeLue, director of the Humanities Initiative, and fellow art & archaeology faculty member Carolina Mangone, who is also the director of the Program in Italian Studies. Uberto Pasolini (left) in conversation with Barbara Graziosi, Rachael DeLue, Carolina Mangone, and attendees of the breakfast discussion (Photo/ Kirstin Ohrt) Post-Event Reflection Life, Liberty, Love, Food & Drink: Classics and poetry collide at Princeton Student Voices Jermaine Bryant appointed to Harvard Society of Fellows Events Mar 19 Social Sophomore Open House Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 12:00 pm Location Prentice Library, 143 East Pyne Mar 20 Lecture Critical Classicality and (De)Colonial Vietnamese Writings: A Sneak Peek Kelly Nguyen Thursday, March 20, 2025, 4:30 pm Location East Pyne 010 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 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.
