Kathleen M. Coleman

Department Chair
James Loeb Professor of the Classics
Senior Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums

Research Interests: Latin literature, especially Flavian poetry; history and culture of the early Empire; arena spectacles; Roman punishment; Latin...

Christopher Jones

George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History, Emeritus

Research Interests: Hellenistic and Roman history; Greek epigraphy; Greek literature of the Roman period; Latin prose literature; Greek and Roman...

Jan Ziolkowski

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Research Interests: Medieval Latin literature, especially narrative; education (grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic), poetics, and literary criticism and theory in the Middle Ages; folktales and popular culture in medieval Latin sources; Latin-vernacular relations... Read more about Jan Ziolkowski

Harvard Website

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Naomi A. Weiss

Assistant Professor of the Classics
On leave 2018–19

Research Interests: Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr play, dithyramb; ancient Greek music and dance; archaic lyric

Gregory Nagy

Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies

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

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Jared M. Hudson

Associate Professor of the Classics

Research Interests: Latin literature and Roman culture, Roman transportation, Latin prose, the Roman rhetorical...

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Livingston, Ivy J. 2004. A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus. New York: Routledge. Publisher's Version Abstract

As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.

Thomas, Richard F. 2012. “The Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan.” Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition, edited by William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, and Katherine Wasdin, 134–159. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Nagy, Gregory. 2012. “Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry.” Homeric Contexts, edited by Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, and Christos Tsagalis, 17–61. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Weiss, Naomi A. 2014. “The Antiphonal Ending of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis (1475–1532).” Classical Philology 109: 119–129.

Nagy, Gregory. 2013. “Virgil’s verse invitus, regina … and its poetic antecedents.” More modoque: Die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident, edited by P Fodor, G Mayer, M Monostori, K Szovák, and L Takács, 155–165. Budapest: Forschungszentrum für Humanwissenschaften der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag.

Elmer, David F. 2013. “The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature.” Oral Tradition [Internet] 28 (2): 341–354. Publisher's Version

Tarrant, Richard J. 2004. “The Last Book of the Aeneid.” Syllecta Classica 15: 103–129.

Henrichs, Albert. 2012. “Animal Sacrifice in Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Metaphor, Problematizations.” Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers, edited by CA Faraone and FS Naiden, 180–194. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thomas, Richard F. 2012. “Thoughts on the Virgilian hexameter.” Multi nominis grammaticus. Festchrift for Alan J. Nussbaum, edited by Adam I Cooper, Jeremy Rau, and Michael Weiss, 306–314. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press.

Department of the Classics

Classical Philology