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PhD in Classical Studies

• About

  Katherine Lu graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University in
  2005. Her research interests include Greek literature, from Homer through Late Antiquity; Greek
  and Roman mythology; reception of classical literature in Christian Late Antiquity and
  Byzantium; and literary papyrology. She spent the 2009-2010 academic year as the Michael
  Jameson Fellow at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens. She will defend her
  dissertation, Heracles and Heroic Disaster, in December 2012. Using Greek literary texts and
  visual images, she examines the destruction caused by Heracles' violence, lust, and mania in
  tension with his glorious reputation for imposing order and dispensing justice. The study seeks to clarify the evolving definitions of heroic success, heroic disaster, and the justice of Zeus, from Homer to Apollonius.