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George Pepe
Titles 
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Degree 
Ph.D., Princeton University
Office 
January Hall, Room 202
Phone/Email
314-935-4172
gpepe@artsci.wustl.edu

Research specialization

Courses 

Ancient History: The Roman Republic

Ancient History: Roman Empire

Ancient Rome in Film and Fiction

Julius Caesar - Collapse of the Roman Republic

Latin and Greek in Current English

Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle

Classical Political Thought: Origin of Political Virtue

The Legacy of Greece

Text And Tradition: Early Western History

Beginning Latin

Intensive Elementary Latin

Survey of Latin Literature: The Republic

Survey of Latin Literature: The Empire

The Roman Historians

Cicero

Topics in Empire Latin: The Confessions of St. Augustine

Medieval Latin

Latin Philosophical Writers

Intensive Beginning Greek

Intermediate Greek

Introduction to Greek Literature

Herodotus

Research Interests

George Pepe's interests center around Roman history and ancient political thought and its later influence. Besides lecturing on the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, he teaches all levels of Latin, particularly upper level courses in Cicero, Seneca, and Tacitus.

Professor Pepe helped to develop the Text & Tradition Program and has served as its director since 1982. He is the recipient of a summer research grant from Washington University to develop a new course for the program, entitled "Scriptures and Scripturalism". He will focus on the canonical texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam together with examples of diverse interpretations.