Princeton Classics

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"

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

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)

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&

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.

Jhumpa Lahiri to deliver Fagles Lecture 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...

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!!

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

Featuring grad alum Dr. Alicia Ejsmond-Frey *19!

Our alumni's careers are dazzling proof the humanities can take you anywhere Recent Princeton alumni from the University’s 50-plus humanities departments and programs have gone on to a breathtaking array of careers.

We are proud to share this announcement of a new partnership between PYRPHOROS, Princeton's Undergraduate Research Journal in Classics, and the Save Ancient Studies Alliance!

📣SASA is proud to announce a new partnership related to ancient studies on Port Ancient ⛵️

🎉 Pyrophoros: The Princeton Undergraduate Classics Journal
⚓️ https://classics.princeton.edu/pyrphoros-princeton-undergraduate-classics-journal.

Pyrophoros is an undergraduate classics journal begun by Jack Geld, a recent Classics graduate from the university. They provide students with a space to share their varied interests in the classical world. They publish volumes of student articles online, and they are free for all to read. They hope to help anyone who is excited about Classics to explore academic topics and connect with others who have a shared passion for antiquity.

✨ Want your project to be featured as well?✨
Email us at [email protected] on how your project can set anchor at SASA’s Port Ancient gallery! saveancientstudies.org/port-ancient

With summer drawing to a close, a band of top experts in ancient Greek political history assembled last week at the Palazzo d'Azeglio in Turin for "Officials and their Powers in Ancient Greece," a conference organized by Matt Simonton of Princeton and Mirko Canevaro and Marco Santini *21 of the University of Edinburgh!

FROM LEFT: Beatrice Pestarino, Claire Taylor, Marco Santini, Matt Simonton, Melissa Lane, Foivos Karachalios, Christian Mann, Maurizio Giangiulio, Mirko Canevaro, Florian Forster, Julie Bernini, Gunnar Seelentag, Josine Blok, Laura Loddo

An initiative of Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, UK Research and Innovation, and Fondazione 1563.