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Department of Classics

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Classics is the investigation of the life and cultural expressions of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Today, Rutgers finds itself in the forefront of some of the most vital areas of inquiry: constructions of ethnicity, sexuality, and freedom; performance of music, drama, and poetry; democracy, tyranny, and resistance to inequality; the social dimensions of law; academic and popular philosophy; and the culture of athletics.

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Mellon Foundation supports Thomas J. Figueira's residency at Institute for Advanced Study

Distinguished Professor Thomas Figueira is spending Fall 2026 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where he's finishing a long-term project on the Athenian phoros (“tribute”) system. He'll explore how Attic hegemony was financed in the fifth-century and its strategic and economic ramifications. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is generously supporting this important work.