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Christopher B. Krebs is Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor in Italian Studies and Professor of Classics (with courtesy appointments in German Studies and Comparative Literature) at Stanford University, where he chairs the Classics Department. His scholarship focuses on Greek and Roman historiography, Latin philology, and classical reception, with particular expertise in Caesar and Tacitus studies.
Education includes:
- Ph.D. in Latin Philology, Kiel University (2003)
- M.St. in Greek Language and Literature, University of Oxford (2002)
- Staatsexamen in Latin Philology and Philosophy, Kiel University (2000)
Research specialties:
- Literary interpretation of Caesar's commentaries
- Reception of Tacitus' Germania
- Plupast narrative structures in ancient historiography
- Intertextuality between Greek and Roman historians
- Lexicographical studies for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
His publications include landmark studies on Caesar's literary techniques, demonstrating how battle descriptions reflect Thucydidean models and geographical accounts encode imperial ideologies. Recent scholarship analyzes etymological wordplay and textual transmission problems in fragmentary historical works.
Honors include the Christian Gauss Book Award for 'A Most Dangerous Book' (2012), the American Journal of Philology Best Article Prize (2018), and fellowships from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
At Stanford, Professor Krebs teaches courses on ancient rhetoric ('Eloquence Personified'), great books in the Humanities Core, and Caesar in Gaul summer programs. He supervises graduate research in Latin literature and historiography.
He directs major editorial projects including 'The Cambridge Companion to Sallust' and has organized international conferences on rhetoric and historiography in Rome (2023) and classics in political discourse (2022, 2024).
