Susan Prince is interested in Greek literature, especially as it represents the emergence of whatever made the Greeks “classical” from larger contexts which did not make the canon, or not straightforwardly.  Her main project so far has been recovering the Socratic disciple Antisthenes from his fragmentary remains.  A synthetic article has appeared in the Blackwell Companion to Socrates (2006), and she is at work on a new edition of the fragments with translation and interpretive commentary.  On the groundwork of her edition of Antisthenes, she will move on to books on ancient Cynicism as a Socratic tradition and Plato in the context of his Socratic and non-Socratic rivals.  Current shorter projects include studies of Lucian (philosophical discourse in Icaromenippus) and the Hippocratics (and the distinction of rational medicine).

Her teaching interests range over most of Greek and Latin prose and poetry, including its rhetoric and style, which she likes to approach through composition exercises.  Among her favorite authors are Homer, Herodotus and Lucian.