Emily Katz Anhalt, Ph.D

Emily Katz Anhalt teaches Classical Languages and Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. She holds an A.B in Ancient Greek from Dartmouth College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, highest distinction in Ancient Greek), and an M.A. and Ph.D in Classical Philology from Yale University. She taught and lectured on Greek mythology, Classical languages, literature, and history at Yale and at Trinity College before joining the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.

The author of Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times: Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, The Man Who Invented History (2025), Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny (2021), Enraged: Why Violent Times need Ancient Greek Myths (2017), Solon the Singer: Politics and Poetics, and over a dozen articles and reviews (as well as the proud winner of the New Yorker cartoon caption contest of December 17, 2007). In her scholarship and her teaching, Anhalt endeavors to remain loyal to the text and to apply the timeless wisdom of ancient Greek thought to the challenges of today.

Gregory Nagy of Harvard University praises Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times: Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, The Man Who Invented History: "A most timely book, sorely needed in our own troubled age, where even the study of humanities is endangered."

Anhalt lives in Guilford, CT.