Amanda Wilcox

Chair and 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

CLAS 102 / COMP 108 SEM

Roman Literature: Gender, Virtue, Empire (not offered 2023/24)

CLGR 201(F) SEM

Intermediate Greek

CLAS 212 / REL 267 / COMP 288 SEM

The Art of Friendship (not offered 2023/24)

CLAS 227 / COMP 277 SEM

The Examined Life: Ancient Ethical Literature at Rome (not offered 2023/24)

CLAS 241 / COMP 241 / WGSS 241(S) TUT

Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome

CLGR 402 SEM

Homer: The Odyssey (not offered 2023/24)

CLGR 406(F) SEM

Aristophanes and Plato

CLLA 407 LEC

Caesar and Cicero (not offered 2023/24)

CLLA 408 SEM

Roman Comedy (not offered 2023/24)

CLGR 409 SEM

Plato (not offered 2023/24)

CLLA 409 SEM

Seneca and the Self (not offered 2023/24)

CLLA 415 SEM

Ovid's Metamorphoses (not offered 2023/24)

CLLA 422(S) SEM

Crete in the Ancient Roman Imagination

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.