Amanda Wilcox
Assistant Professor of Classics
(On leave 2009–2010)

North Academic Building 155
Williams College
85 Mission Park Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-4292

E-mail

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Teaching—Recent Courses

Greek and Latin

• Intermediate Greek: Hesiod and Plato
• Beginning Latin
• Intermediate Latin I: The Late Republic
• Advanced Latin: Roman Letters
• Advanced Latin: Seneca and the Self
• Advanced Latin: Caesar and Cicero
• Advanced Latin: Roman Comedy

Literature in Translation

• The Ancient Novel
• Roman Literature: Foundations and Empire
  

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Research

Areas of Interest

• Latin literature of the late republic and early empire
• Roman cultural history, especially gender studies and intellectual history
• Ancient philosophy: Plato, Hellenistic ethics, Stoicism
• Greek literature

  Selected Scholarship

• “Sympathetic Rivals: Consolation in Cicero’s Letters.” American Journal of Philology 26.2 (2005).
• “Exemplary Grief: Gender and Virtue in Seneca’s Consolations to Women.” Forthcoming in Helios 34.1 (2006).
• “Paternal Grief and the Public Eye: Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.6.” Forthcoming in Phoenix.
• “The End of Errabunda Vestigia: Wandering in Virgil’s Aeneid.” In progress.
• The Economy of Correspondence in Classical Rome. In progress.

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Education

• Ph.D. (2002) University of Pennsylvania
• M.A. (1999) University of Pennsylvania
• B.A. (1996) Reed College

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Updated 9/8/09