Victoria Wohl is the Distinguished Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of classical Greece, spanning a variety of genres and discourses. She is the author of Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (2002), Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory (2010), and Euripides and the Politics of Form (2015), and editor of the volume Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought (2014). Her latest book is The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy (2025).
Wohl will be a Class of 1932 Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics in Spring 2026. She will teach a multi-genre 400-level seminar spanning Greek literature, oratory, and philosophy.
