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Joshua Billings

Former doctoral student
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A headshot of Joshua Billings.

Professor Joshua Billings completed his doctorate in Oxford in 2011 under the supervision of Oliver Taplin and Fiona Macintosh. He is now Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, having previously taught at Yale and held a research fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge. He is currently working on a commentary on Euripides’ Hippolytus for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 

Selected publications

Joshua has written two books: Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton 2014) traces the emergence of modern conceptions of tragedy and the tragic in the 18th and 19th century. The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens (Princeton 2021) explores how Greek drama can be understood as a form of philosophical thought before the discipline of philosophy. 

In addition, he has co-edited a number of volumes, including entitled Choruses, Ancient and Modern (with Felix Budelmann and Fiona Macintosh, Oxford University Press, 2013), Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity (with Miriam Leonard; for the OUP Classical Presences series, 2015), and the Cambridge Companion to the Sophists (with Christopher Moore, 2023).