Amanda Wilcox

Professor of Classics

[email protected]
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

Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.

CLAS 102 / COMP 108(S)

Roman Literature: Gender, Virtue, Empire

CLLA 201(F)

Intermediate Latin: The Late Republic

CLAS 212 / REL 267 / COMP 288

The Art of Friendship

CLAS 241 T / COMP 241 / WGSS 241

Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome

CLLA 407

Caesar and Cicero

CLLA 408

Roman Comedy

CLLA 409

Seneca and the Self

CLLA 415(S)

Ovid's Metamorphoses

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

  • Faculty Steering Committee, Chair