Celia Schultz
Assistant Professor
Office: PH 202
Phone: (203) 432-0991
Email: celia.schultz@yale.edu
Links: Classics
Celia E. Schultz joined the Department of Classics in 2001 after teaching at the Johns Hopkins University. She received her B.A. in Classics from the Pennsylvania State University (1992) and her Ph.D. in Latin from Bryn Mawr College (1999). She was the Andrew Heiskell Post-doctoral Fellow at the American Academy in Rome for 2004-2005.
Her main research interests are Roman religion, Latin literature, and Roman history. She is the author of Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic (UNC Press 2006) and the co-editor of Religion in Republican Italy, a volume of Yale Classical Studies (2006). She has also published articles on the Roman cults of Hercules, Vesta, Venus, and Juno Sospita, as well as on Vergil's third Eclogue. She is currently working on a study of Cicero's De Divinatione.
Among the courses she offers are Livy's first pentad, Sallust, Vergil, Lucretius, Cicero's Philosophical and Religious Treatises, Prophecy and Divination in the Ancient World, the History of Rome, and the History of Latin Literature.
