Nadia Williams
Historian and classicist with a PhD in Classics from Princeton, books editor at Mere Orthodoxy and author of Christians Reading Classics, interviewed here about the value and reception of ancient Greek and Roman literature.
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Mar 22, 2026 • 1h 11min
172. Reading Classics
Nadia Williams, historian and classicist with a PhD from Princeton and author of Christians Reading Classics. She explains what counts as the Classics and why they still matter. They discuss Homeric longing for fame, Greek drama’s civic role, Pindaric athletic glory, differences between Herodotus and Thucydides, Roman virtue in Livy and Tacitus, rhetoric’s power, and how early Christians engaged pagan texts.
