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

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 (not offered 2019/20)

CLAS 241 T / COMP 241 / WGSS 241

Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome (not offered 2019/20)

CLLA 407

Caesar and Cicero (not offered 2019/20)

CLLA 408

Roman Comedy (not offered 2019/20)

CLLA 409

Seneca and the Self (not offered 2019/20)

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

Compensation Committee from Steering Committee