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.

Summer Reads 2025: Yelena Baraz shares her list

Six Princeton professors—including our own Yelena Baraz—talk about favorite books and share what’s on their summer reading lists: novels, biographies and memoirs, fantasy, history and more!


 

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