Princeton Classics

10/13/2026

Shout-out to Prof. Ilaria Marchesi and grad students Bellina Gaskey Johr and Daria Molinari for representing Princeton Classics last week at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States!

DARIA MOLINARI
"Reading the Unreliable Body: Medea’s Gestural Language in Euripides and Apollonius’ Argonautica"

ILARIA MARCHESI
Teaching and Pedagogy (Presider)

BELLINA GASKEY JOHR
"Intimated Futures and the Limits of Epistolarity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry"

10/09/2026

What a pleasure to join forces with Princeton Classics Club to host songwriter Joe Goodkin for a performance of his spectacular The Blues of Achilles —a cycle of seventeen songs retelling Homer's Iliad!

Special thanks to Joe for hanging out with Classics Club, and to Theatre Intime for hosting. Interested in Classics Club? Please reach out!

10/06/2026

"Graziosi uses innovative methods and collaborates with a diverse range of individuals, including computer scientists and professional dancers, to gain deeper understanding of these writings... In the same way that these works went from oral tradition to written, she feels that her work represents the next step in their ongoing evolution."

Learn more about Prof. Barbara Graziosi's classics journey in Princeton Alumni Weekly's latest Behind the Research feature—available online now!

Behind the ResearchProfessor Barbara Graziosi Brings Ancient Texts to Life Barbara Graziosi Agata Nowicka By Mark Syp ’05 Published Oct. 2, 20262 min read Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Opens in a new window Copied to clipboardWhile ancient texts may be viewed as old and unchanging, p...

09/30/2026

This week in serendipitous Princeton Alumni reunions, Meg Andrews '05 (now a professor at Harvard's Department of the Classics) found herself aboard a joint Princeton Journeys–Harvard Alumni Travels cruise of the Aegean—lecturing alongside her former Princeton professor Denis Feeney!

"It’s been 20 years since I was in a class with Denis, so it was really great for us to have a chance to traipse around Greece together all this time later."

📸 Judy Feeney, "somewhere between Crete and Athens"

09/23/2026

For starting our year's evening lecture series off with a bang, bravo to University of Toronto, Department of Classics Prof. Dylan Kenny—or, as Prof. Josh Billings remembered him in his introduction, "one of the first and most brilliant undergrads I ever taught!"

THE BEAST AND THE SOVEREIGN: Pindar fr. 169a M
Dylan Kenny, University of Toronto

09/18/2026

A big welcome to all the new Princeton classicists we met yesterday at Cookies and Classics, our departmental open house for interested students—can't wait to see you in class!

(Photos by Nicole Choen '28)

09/12/2026

Happy Publication Day to Prof. Bob Kaster, whose new edition of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations is available today from Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)!

"The first such edition to appear in the Oxford Classical Text series, and first new edition to appear anywhere in over forty years, it is based on the most extensive survey to date of the medieval manuscripts and a generous sampling of the humanistic copies, and on a thorough familiarity with more than fifty previous editions... The edition makes available the most reliable text to date of perhaps the most accessible of Cicero's philosophica."

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cicero-tusculan-disputations-marci-tulli-ciceronis-tusculanarum-disputationum-9780198891925?cc=us&lang=en&

09/10/2026

We are thrilled to announce world-renowned author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri as Princeton's 2026 Robert Fagles Lecturer for Classics in the Contemporary Arts!

Lahiri's lecture, scheduled for October 13, is entitled “Ovid Inside Out” and explores her work translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in collaboration with Princeton Classics chair Yelena Baraz.

Princeton Classics is delighted to welcome world-renowned author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri as Princeton's 2026 Robert Fagles Lecturer for Classics in the Contemporary Arts. Lahiri's lecture, scheduled for October 13, is entitled “Ovid Inside Out” and explores her work translating Ovid's Metam...

09/02/2026

A big welcome back to Princeton! That's a wrap on day one of classes, including CLA 212: Classical Mythology, taught by Prof. Andrew Feldherr, and fielding triple digits, as usual. Here's to a fantastic AY 2026–27!!

08/31/2026

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Chiara Battisti on completing her doctorate AND beginning a prestigious fellowship with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU!

"After defending my dissertation on Roman Republican magistrates in Greek sanctuaries, I am delighted to be joining Simon Fraser University as the 2026–2027 Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies. During the fellowship, I will continue developing my research on cultural brokerage in antiquity, while also expanding my interests in the intellectual and cultural history of the Greek diaspora and exploring connections between ancient and modern Hellenisms. I am grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this journey and excited for the research, teaching, and new collaborations of the year ahead."
—Dr. Chiara Battisti *26