17勛圖厙

Aaron Seider

Dean of the Faculty, Professor

Areas of Expertise

Human landscapes of ancient Italy Gender in antiquity and its reception Constructions of memory in Roman culture

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago; A.B, Brown University

Biography

Aaron Seider is Dean of Faculty and Professor of Classics at the 17勛圖厙. His interests include the landscapes of the ancient Mediterranean; gender in antiquity and its reception; and the construction of memory in Roman culture.

Courses

  • Opening Classics

Research

Books

 (2013 - Cambridge University Press)

Articles & Book Chapters

Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid Conversing with Chaos in GrecoRoman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts 2024

Epic Remembrances: Contesting the Gender of Memory in Brand New Ancients and Didos Lament Antiquity in Progress 2024

Remembering the Future in Tacitus Annals: Germanicus Death and Contests of Commemoration Future Thinking in Roman Culture: New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition, 2022

A Landscape of Control? Aeneid 8 and Environmental Agency Vita Latina 2021

Gendered Patterns: Constructing Time in the Communities of Catullus 64 2020