About me
Christopher Krebs studied Classics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel, and Oxford and taught at Harvard before joining Stanford's Classics Department, where he regularly teaches a Freshman Seminar on Ancient Rhetoric and its Contemporary Relevance and an Humanities Core class on Great Books, Big Ideas from Antiquity. He is the author of A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, which received the 2012 Christian Gauss Award, and, most recently, a commentary on Caesar. The Gallic War: Book VII. He enjoys writing for wider audiences and has published reviews and essays in The Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, and others. He has a piece on friendship forthcoming.
