Description: In Christians Reading Classics, classical scholar Nadya Williams encourages Christians to read the Greco-Roman classics as Christians and equips them to do so productively by providing an introduction to key authors and genres from all periods of Greco-Roman literature, from Homer to Boethius.
Brief description:
Nadya Williams received her Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University and is a military historian of the Greco-Roman world. After fifteen years as a Professor of Ancient History and Classics, she left academia to focus on homeschooling her children and writing for the church. She is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church (Zondervan Academic, 2023), Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic (IVP Academic, 2024), Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025), and the co-editor (with Nicola Foote) of Civilians and Warfare in World History (Routledge, 2017).
She is books editor for Mere Orthodoxy. She is also a regular contributor to Christianity Today, contributing editor for Providence Magazine and Front Porch Republic, and featured author at Fairer Disputations. Her essays and reviews have also appeared in Current, Plough, Law and Liberty, Religion and Liberty, The Dispatch, The Gospel Coalition, Comment, Common Good Magazine, and more.