Peter Barrios-Lech is Professor of Classics at UMass Boston. He works in the areas of:

• ancient sociolinguistics: how did the ancients convey a social identity through language? How did they use languages to forge and maintain relationships? How do factors (where, and when something is said and who says it) affect linguistic choices?

• ancient language pragmatics: how did ancient languages actually work and why did they work they way they did in all kinds of contexts?

• Greek and Latin Syntax: from a synchronic and diachronic perspective

• Greco-Latin drama: Greek tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides); Comedy (Aristophanes and Menander); Roman Comedy (Plautus and Terence).

• Editing of ancient texts

• ATTENTION: Click here if you are looking for files related to my recent publication, Plautus Casina: edited, with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2025: Liverpool).