Amanda Wilcox

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Professor of Classics

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413-597-4292
Hollander Hall Rm 155
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

Roman Literature: Gender, Virtue, Empire (not offered 2020/21)

CLLA 102(S)

Introduction to Latin

CLAS 201 / COMP 233(F)

Love and Strife

CLAS 212 / REL 267 / COMP 288

The Art of Friendship (not offered 2020/21)

CLAS 241 T / COMP 241 / WGSS 241

Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome (not offered 2020/21)

CLLA 407

Caesar and Cicero (not offered 2020/21)

CLLA 408(F)

Roman Comedy

CLGR 409(F)

Plato

CLLA 409

Seneca and the Self (not offered 2020/21)

CLLA 415

Ovid's Metamorphoses (not offered 2020/21)

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

  • Compensation Committee from Steering Committee