Amanda Wilcox
Assistant Professor of Classics
On leave, spring 2008

Classics Department
Stetson Hall C15
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-4292 (office)
(413) 597-4305 (fax)

awilcox@williams.edu

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Teaching

At Williams, each of the Classics faculty teaches a wide range of courses, and we take turns teaching many of the courses in our curriculum. We value this broad interaction with the field of Classics and with our students; in addition this breadth enriches the more focused work of our research.

Courses at Williams

Greek and Latin

• Beginning Latin
• Intermediate Latin I: The Late Republic
• Advanced Latin: Roman Comedy

History and Culture

• The Ancient Novel

Courses prior to Williams

Greek and Latin

• Intermediate Latin Prose; Poetry
• Advanced Latin: Oratory
• Advanced Latin: History
• Latin Graduate Seminar: Letter Writing

• History and Culture

• World of Rome

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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 Senaca'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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