Josiah Osgood

Josiah Osgood is a professor of Classics at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He began learning Latin as a high school student in Ithaca, New York and went on to major in Classics at Yale University. He is fascinated by the Greeks and Romans themselves and the way their government, architecture, theatrical entertainments, and so much more live on in modern culture. The author of many scholarly works on Roman history, he has also written books for a wide readership such as Uncommon Wrath. For Princeton's series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers he has produced translations of Suetonius and Sallust.