Peter Heslin is a scholar of Classical Latin poetry, Roman art and topography, and the digital humanities. He is the developer of the Diogenes software, open-source software providing digital access to the Classics. He is the author of Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil: Rivalry, Allegory and Polemic (Oxford University Press, 2018), The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus and Roman Poetry (Getty Museum, 2015), and The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in the Achilleid of Statius (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His current research focuses on applying machine learning and Bayesian models to ancient languages, and on the poet Horace.
Heslin will serve as a Class of 1932 Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of Classics in Spring 2025. He will teach a graduate seminar on Horace.
