DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS

Nick Winters (PhD Duke University, 2020) is a classicist and former physicist specializing in ancient mathematics and science. His research examines the reciprocal influences between ancient scientific methods and the social, political, and economic situations in which they were formed.

Dr. Winters teaches courses at Northwestern on ancient medicine and ancient astronomy, as well as the literature and history of Greece and Rome. He is an affiliate faculty member with Science in Human Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and CIERA, and a faculty fellow with Slivka Residential College of Science and Engineering. Outside of Northwestern, he is an editor of the undergraduate research journal Philomathes and president of Trans in Classics.

Research interests: Ancient Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Selected Publications

Winters, Nicholas. 2025. “Method and Style in Archimedes’ Quadrature of the Parabola.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 79 (1): 15. 

Winters, Nicholas. 2023. “The Epicurean Project of the Ciris.” In Afterlives of the Garden: Receptions of Epicurean Thought in the Early Empire and Late Antiquity, edited by Gregson Davis and Sergio Yona. De Gruyter.