Books
Ancient voices,
made startlingly modern.
Translations, adaptations, and scholarship about humor, resilience, persuasion, freedom, and the stranger corners of Greece and Rome.
Forthcoming · September 29, 2026
How to Speak Freely
Plato’s defense of Socrates meets a biting ancient satire about what happens when leaders invite candor—and then receive it.
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Books for general readers and scholars.
2027The Trial and Death of SocratesPlato · Princeton University Press→
2026How to Speak FreelyPlato · Princeton University Press→
2025How to Have WillpowerPrudentius and Plutarch · Princeton University Press→
2024How to Get Over a BreakupOvid · Princeton University Press→
2022How to GrieveCicero · Princeton University Press→
2021How to Tell a JokeCicero · Princeton University Press→
2020How to DrinkVincent Obsopoeus · Princeton University Press→
2019The Pig WarJohn Placentius · Paideia Institute Press→
2018Quasi Labor IntusCo-editor · Paideia Institute Press→
2014The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman ComedyCo-editor · Oxford University Press→
2010Funny Words in Plautine ComedyOxford University Press→