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As part of this program designed to provide senior faculty additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly, Prof. Flower will develop his project, “The Art of Historical Fiction in Ancient Greece”. He will also serve as a faculty fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.

Says a nominating colleague, “Her wide-ranging body of scholarship … has made her one of the leading figures in the study of Roman history. She has made Roman historians recognize how their own reconstructions of the past had been shaped by assumptions about continuities and change. And she has brought the same attention both to detail and the big picture to her teaching and service to the University and all its students.”

Prof. Holmes has been selected for the NYPL’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers 20th class of Fellows, including scholars, academics, and creative writers. While in residence, she will be working on the project “The Tissue of the World: Sympathy and the Nature of Nature in Greco-Roman Antiquity,” which explores sympathy in the human and non-human worlds in Greco-Roman natural philosophy, medicine, natural history and pastoral poetry.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists, on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. Brooke Holmes is among 173 selected from a group of almost 3,000 applicants. Martin Kern and two other Princeton faculty members were also awarded.

“…we can circle back to James Madison and the extent to which he was molded by his deep readings in the classics as an undergraduate at college. For Madison knew that our word ‘civility’ flowers out of the Latin ‘civis,’ which means ‘citizen.’ To be civil is, therefore, literally to engage in a deeply important activity: to engage in behavior appropriate to a free citizen, to commit oneself to speech and action duly sensitive to your fellow citizens.”

Not Composed in a Chance Manner: The Epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathios of Thessalonike is now out in hardcover. This edition and study of one of the longest and most ambitious political eulogies of the Byzantine era illustrates the potential of neglected medieval Greek texts to shed light on the elusive poetics of Byzantine literature.

Strabo may have called the Cappadocians Βαρβαροφωνοι (“Barbarous speakers”), but Mark Janse’s discussion on October 23, 2017 of a Late Medieval Cappadocian song made the dialect seem anything but foreign.

Greece is both a physical location and an imagined space. The gap or continuity between the two has been a pressing question since antiquity, and addressing it an urgent political, theoretical, and aesthetic issue.

Whether traveling with students on a summer course, serving on the judging panel of a book contest, researching a new book or simply putting their feet up, professors — like book lovers everywhere — think carefully about what to read each summer. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, assistant professor of Classics, is one of six professors who shared their reading lists.

Marc Domingo Gygax, professor of classics, was named joint winner of the 2017 Runciman Award for his book, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City. Here he talks about his work in an interview by the Anglo-Hellenic League.

The Department of Classics is happy to announce that Solveig Lucia Gold, Erynn Jean-Hee Kim, Selena Nicole Kitchens, and Ayelet Gila Wenger were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Congratulations to all!

A new special exhibition, Manuscripts and papyri: The routes of knowledge at the Papyrus Museum in the Austrian National Library, co-organized by Daniela Mairhofer, was launched on Thursday, May 18th in Vienna and will be on show until January 14, 2018.

Joshua Katz, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, has been awarded the Institute of Classical Studies' Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship for 2017–18. Commemorating the contribution of a pioneering figure in UK classics, the fellowship is awarded to senior scholars from universities outside the UK with research interests in any field of classical studies.