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Ancient Studies at Harvard

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Ancient Studies at Harvard brings together faculty and graduate students who study the ancient world. It aims to increase the visibility of the historical, archaeological, literary, and theological engagement with antiquity, broadly understood, from all...

Naomi A. Weiss

Person
  • Greece (mainland and islands)
  • 8th c. BCE–4th c. BCE
  • Areas of Expertise: ancient Greek poetry; theater; music; performance culture

Richard F. Thomas

Person
  • Italy, the West
  • 300 CE–200 CE; 17th c. CE–21st c. CE reception
  • Areas of Expertise: Hellenistic poetry; Roman Republican and Augustan literature; Roman historiography; reception

Susanne Ebbinghaus

Person
  • Greece and the Near East
  • 1st millennium BCE
  • Areas of Expertise: cross-cultural exchanges between east and west; the art of feasting; materials and techniques (especially metalworking and sculptural polychromy); museums

Charles M. Stang

Person
  • Eastern Mediterranean and Near East
  • Late antiquity (3rd c. CE–9th c. CE)
  • Areas of Expertise: early Christian thought; Greek philosophy (especially Neoplatonism); religions of the ancient Mediterranean; asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism

Gojko Barjamovic

Person
  • Western Asia
  • Bronze and Iron Age
  • Areas of Expertise: economic history and trade; political history and governance; comparative approaches to the use of knowledge; Assyriology and the sciences: chronology, foodways, and aDNA; philology and text...

Peter Machinist

Person
  • Ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia and the Levant, centering on Israel and Judah
  • 2nd and 1st millennia BCE
  • Areas of Expertise: comparative study of cultures; the history of Assyria; Hebrew Bible and the history of Israel and Judah...

Giovanni Battista Bazzana

Person
  • Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity
  • Areas of Expertise: Synoptic Gospels and apocalyptic literature; papyrology: New Testament studies

Shaye J.D. Cohen

Person
  • Judaea and the Near East
  • Roman and Byzantine periods (late antiquity)
  • Areas of Expertise: history of Judaism; Judaism and Hellenism; Josephus; rabbinic law and literature

Kathleen Coleman

Person
  • Roman Empire
  • Areas of Expertise: Flavian literature; Latin epigraphy; Roman spectacle