Classics Faculty


JENNY STRAUSS CLAY, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Studies, is the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns, and Hesiod's Cosmos, and has published numerous articles on Greek and Roman poets. She is currently working on the Iliad.



JANE WEBB CRAWFORD, Professor of Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, has published two books on Cicero, M. Tullius Cicero: The Lost and Unpublished Speeches, and M. Tullius Cicero: The Fragmentary Speeches, as well as articles on Cicero, Clodius, Boudicca and St. Radegunde of France. She has co-authored The Horace's Villa Project, 1997-2003. Currently she is working on the Ciceronian scholiasts and is preparing a new edition of Cicero's Pro Caelio.


JOHN DILLERY, Associate Professor of Classics, is the author of Xenophon and the History of His Times, and articles on Herodotus, Hecataeus of Abdera, and papyri; he thoroughly revised the Loeb edition of Xenophon's Anabasis. He is currently at work on a project dealing with historical writing under the early Ptolemies and Seleucids.


BERNARD FRISCHER, Professor of Classics and Art History and Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, is author of At Tu Aureus Esto: Eine Interpretation von Vergils 7. Ekloge, The Sculpted Word, Shifting Paradigms, and Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa. He has co-authored The Horace's Villa Project, 1997-2003. His current research interests embrace digital humanities, digital archaeology, virtual reality, urban simulation, visualization, stylometrics, Roman archaeology, urban history of Rome, and Golden Latin literature.


COULTER GEORGE, Assistant Professor of Classics, is the author of Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek. His chief area of research is the historical development of the Greek language, and he is particularly interested in the role of bilingualism in shaping Jewish and Christian Greek. He is currently working on Greek expressions of time.


GREGORY HAYS, Associate Professor of Classics, has published articles and reviews on Greek poetry and later Latin literature, and a translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. His research interests center on late antique and medieval Latin, and he is currently finishing a project involving the fifth-century African mythographer Fulgentius.


DAVID KOVACS, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics, is editor and translator of the nineteen plays of Euripides (six volumes) for the Loeb Classical Library. He is also the author of The Andromache of Euripides: an Interpretation (1980), The Heroic Muse (1987), Euripidea (1994), Euripidea Altera (1998), Euripidea Tertia (2003), and of articles on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Ovid, Horace, Seneca, and other classical authors.


JON D. MIKALSON, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics, is the author of The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year, Athenian Popular Religion, Honor Thy Gods: Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, Ancient Greek Religion, and articles on topics of Greek religion and literature. His research interests are Greek religious beliefs as manifested in literature, history, and everyday life.


JOHN F. MILLER, Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department, is the author of Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the Fasti, and numerous articles on various Latin authors. He works chiefly in Latin poetry, particularly in its religious background and affinities with Hellenistic poetics. His book Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets is forthcoming.


K. SARA MYERS, Associate Professor of Classics, is the author of Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses and articles on Ovid, Roman Elegy, and Statius. She is currently completing a commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses 14.

A.J. WOODMAN, Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics and Director of Graduate Admissions, is the author of two volumes of commentary on Velleius Paterculus, of Rhetoric in classical historiography, of Latin historians (with C.S. Kraus), of Tacitus reviewed, and also of Tacitus: the Annals and Sallust: Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories (annotated translations). With R.H. Martin he has produced commentaries on Tacitus Annals, Books III and IV. He is co-editor of Quality and pleasure in Latin poetry, Creative imitation and Latin literature, Poetry and politics in the age of Augustus, Past perspectives: studies in Greek and Roman historical writing, Author and audience in Latin literature, Tacitus and the Tacitean tradition, and Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace. Currently he is editing The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus, co-editing (with I.M.Le M. Du Quesnay) a volume of essays on Catullus, and co-authoring (with C.S. Kraus) a commentary on Tacitus' Agricola for the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.


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