She is also interested in the study of women and gender in antiquity and in Greco-Roman religion. She is the author of Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (Cambridge ...

In her evocative new translation of the “Aeneid,” Johnston, professor of classical studies, writes in dactylic hexameter, the meter Vergil himself used when he wrote his masterpiece in the first ...

His research focuses on the works of several Greek and Latin authors, specifically Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Apologia, Petronius’ Satyrica, Fronto’s Correspondence, Hyginus’ Myths, and Vergil’s ...