Princeton University Professor Molly Greene is delivering the 32nd Annual Walton lecture, titled 1453: How Important Was It? at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), today, October 30.

Professor Greene specializes in the history of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the Greek world. Her interests include the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the experience of Greeks under Ottoman rule, Mediterranean piracy, and the institution of the market.


Her more recent book is titled Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 1450-1700, while her next project is a history of the Greeks and the Greek world under Ottoman rule for a multi-volume series being published by Edinburgh University Press.