Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

A specialist in ancient Greek literature and culture, especially Archaic Greek poetry and Herodotus, Leslie Kurke is Gladys Rehard Wood Chair and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.

Project: "Freud’s Rome: Psychoanalysis and Latin literature"
Counterpart: Janet Adelman, English

Mark Griffith is currently working on class and gender issues in Greek tragedy and satyr-drama, and on the training, socialization, and education of the young in Archaic Greece.

Nandini Pandey is entering the Department of Classics to pursue a Ph.D. with a project analyzing the reception of the classics, especially in Augustan Rome and Elizabethan England.

James Brian Ker, a Ph.D. candidate in Classics, addresses in his dissertation, Nocturnal Letters: Practicing Time in Imperial Rome, the discourse on time and identity in the literature and society of Rome in the first century CE, with an emphasis on the Epistulae morales of Seneca the younger.

Anthony Long's work in ancient Greek philosophy focuses particularly upon Greek models of mind and self.

In 'Ars Cladis': Violence and Elite Speech in Plautus, Mahalia Way, Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Classics, examines what she calls the “politics and poetics of physical mutilation.”