Classics Faculty

Research interests: the history of ancient philosophy and science, especially medicine and mechanics

Research interests: postclassical Greek literature and culture; comparative poetics; reception studies; cultural politics; cognitive and historical anthropology; critical theory

Research interests: Greek and Latin historical linguistics; Homeric language; Indo-European languages and linguistics; Indo-Iranian linguistics

Research interests: Archaic and Classical Greek poetry and prose; rhetoric, linguistics, metrics, traditions

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Research interests: Greek history (especially Hellenistic); Greek historiography (especially Herodotus, Polybius, 1 and 2 Maccabees); ancient kingship and imperialism (Near Eastern, Graeco-Macedonian, and Roman); ancient ethnography, geography, and...

Research interests: Roman Republican and early Imperial history; questions of identity in the ancient world; Roman imperialism; ancient Italy; the making of the Roman past

For undergraduate program inquiries, please email classicsDUS@fas.harvard.edu.

Research interests: archaic Greek epic and lyric poetry, epigram, Ancient Greek and Roman novels, South Slavic oral epic, contemporary literary theory