Luca Grillo
Professor
Department Chair
Biography
Luca was Assistant Professor of Classics at Amherst College (2008-13) and Assistant and then Associate Professor of Classics and William R. Kenan, Jr. Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013-18). He has taught Latin and Greek at different levels and courses in ancient civilization, like The Romans, History of Rome, The Age of Augustus and Ancient and Modern Rhetoric.
Frequently Teaches
Survey of Latin Literature I and II, Virgil, Ancient Sport and Society, Roman History: the Republic
Research Interests
Latin and Greek Language and Literature; Historiography and Rhetoric; Roman History; Augustan Poetry; Numismatics
Representative Publications
How to Make Money, Princeton University Press, 2024
The Art of Caesar’s Bellum Civile: Literature, Ideology, and Community, Cambridge University Press, pp. xii + 221 (2012, paperback 2015)
A Commentary on Cicero’s De Provinciis Consularibus, Oxford University Press, pp. xxii + 345 (2015)
The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar, co-editor with Prof. Christopher Krebs, pp. xiv + 396 (January 2018)
Education
Luca received his PhD in Classics from Princeton University in 2008, his MA in Classical and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2003, and his B.A. in Literature and Philosophy from the Universita’ Cattolica in Milan in 1995. As a graduate student, he won a one-year Schwartz fellowship at the American Numismatic Society in NY, a summer stipend at the Kommission für alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in Munich, and a graduate teaching award from Princeton University.
Publications
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How to Make Money
Princeton University Press, 2024
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The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar
Luca Grillo and Christopher Krebs
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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A Commentary on Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus
Oxford University Press, 2015
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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile
Cambridge University Press, 2012