Classics Department
Professor and Dean of the Faculty
Ph.D., University of Chicago
A.B, Brown University
Fields:泭Latin literature; human landscapes of ancient Italy; gender in antiquity and its reception; constructions of memory in Roman culture
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Contact Information
| Email: aseider@holycross.edu Office Phone: 508-793-3976 Office: Fenwick 117 PO Box:泭117A | 泭 泭 |
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
- Fall 2024
- Opening Classics (co-taught with Prof. Elizabeth Knott)
- Spring 2025
- Opening Classics (co-taught with Prof. Danielle Candelora)
Research
Book
泭(2013 - Cambridge University Press)
Articles & Book Chapters
Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental泭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
Grief, Distance, and Shadows in泭Aen. 12.945-52: A泭Sphragis泭for the泭 Book of Vergil泭The Classical Journal泭113: 303-33泭泭 2018 (PDF)
Allure without Allusion: Quoting a Virgilian Epitaph in a 9/11 Memorial泭Interfaces泭38: 173-94泭 2016- 2017
Genre, Gallus, and Goats: Expanding the Limits of Pastoral in泭泭Eclogues泭6 and 10 Vergilius泭62: 3-23 2016
Catullan Myths: Gender, Mourning, and the Death of a Brother泭Classical Antiquity泭35: 279-314 2016
"泭泭泭Epekeina: International Journal of Ontology, History and Critics泭4: 141-75泭 泭[Special volume:泭Evil, Progress, and Fall:泭Moral Readings of Time and泭Cultural Development in Roman Literature泭]泭 2014
The Boundaries of Violence in Horatius Battles (Livy 1.22-26) (New England Classical Journal)泭 2012
(American Journal of Philology)泭 2012