In a Q&A, James Uden, Professor of Classics, discusses the “intense joy of life” in Roman culture, why Latin has so few poems about public bathing, and finding a good sake bar in New Haven.

In a Q&A, Assistant Professor of Classics Malina Buturović explains what drew her to study the ancient world, what we can learn from ancient science, and her love of movies in which nothing happens.

The Eastman Professorship was established in 1929 by George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. Eastman created a chair at Oxford University to be filled on a visiting basis by senior American Scholars of the highest distinction, who remain on the faculty at Oxford for one year.

Can ancient rivers teach us to adapt? Yale researchers led by Joseph Manning, William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History, explore how volcanic eruptions reshaped river societies — and what that means for climate resilience today.

Associate Professor Jessica Lamont won two awards for her monograph In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2023). Professor Kirk Freudenburg received the biennial Vergilian Society McKay Prize for his monograph Virgil’s Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid (Oxford 2023).

Lamont was honored for her first book, which examines the use of curse tablets in ancient Greece and beyond.

Freudenburg was honored for his 2022 book, Virgil's Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid.

An ancient object that Assistant Professor of Classics Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

Emily Greenwood has been named the John M. Musser Professor of Classics.