Jeffrey Fish

Jeffrey Fish is an Associate Professor of Classics at Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. (UT Austin, 1999), M.A. (Brown University, 1990), and B.A. (Baylor University, 1989). His research focuses on papyrology, ancient Homeric scholarship, and Epicureanism, with particular emphasis on Philodemus’ writings and early Christian papyri. He is co-editor of Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition (Cambridge, 2011) and Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans (UT Press, 2004).

• Currently edits Philodemus’ On the Good King According to Homer
• Board member of American Friends of Herculaneum

Key research contributions include:

• Reconstructing Herculaneum papyri (e.g., Philodemus’ political philosophy)
• Analysis of Sappho fragments and ancient marginalia

His work is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Loeb Foundation, and the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi.