John Hamilton is the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Previous publications include Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (2004), Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (2008), Security (2013), Philology of the Flesh (2018), and Complacency: Classics and its Displacement in Higher Education (2022).