Amanda R. Wilcox

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Professor of Classics

[email protected]
413-597-4292
Hollander Hall Rm 154
At Williams since 2006

Education

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

Areas of Expertise

  • 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

Courses

CLAS 102 / COMP 108(S) SEM

Roman Literature: Gender, Virtue, Empire

CLLA 201(F) SEM

Intermediate Latin: The Late Republic

CLAS 212 / REL 267 / COMP 288(F) SEM

The Art of Friendship

CLAS 227 / COMP 277 SEM

The Examined Life: Ancient Ethical Literature at Rome (not offered 2025/26)

CLGR 402 SEM

Homer: The Odyssey (not offered 2025/26)

CLGR 406 SEM

Aristophanes and Plato (not offered 2025/26)

CLLA 407(S) LEC

Caesar and Cicero

CLGR 409 SEM

Plato (not offered 2025/26)

CLLA 409 SEM

Seneca and the Self (not offered 2025/26)

CLLA 415 SEM

Ovid's Metamorphoses (not offered 2025/26)

CLLA 422 SEM

Crete in the Ancient Roman Imagination (not offered 2025/26)

Scholarship/Creative Work

Selected publications

  • “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.” Helios 33.1 (2006).
  • “Paternal Grief and the Public Eye: Cicero, Ad Familiares 4.6.” Phoenix 59.3-4 (2005).
  • The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

Current Committees

  • Campus Environmental Committee, Chair