Kenneth Lapatin, Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will be coming to Princeton in the spring as the 2025-2026 Program in the Ancient World Fellow.
From the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, gem engraving (aka glyptic) was a highly prized craft…
Latin was the defining language of medieval monastic culture, yet its social reality within individual communities was far from uniform. This lecture explores the role of Latin in the monastery of St. Gall as a language learned, spoken, and negotiated in daily life. Drawing on Ekkehart’s Casus sancti Galli and related texts,…
A retirement conference in honor of Harriet Flower, Andrew Fleming West Professor in Classics, and…
In first-century CE Herculaneum, a freedwoman named Petronia Vitalis staged a confrontation with her patrons over their claim to her daughter Iusta. Some years later, Iusta would elevate the dispute to a legal matter, leaving a cache of wooden tablets attesting to the entanglement of slavery and kinship in the household. Using Vitalis’ struggle…
The Classics Department's annual Reunions Alumni Brunch. Join fellow alumni and current students and faculty for endless coffee and breakfast food, plus a special update on all things Princeton Classics!