Classics Department
Professor and Dean of the Faculty
Ph.D., University of Chicago
A.B, Brown University
Fields:听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:听117A | 听 听 |
Biography
Aaron Seider is Dean of Faculty and Professor of Classics at the 海角社区. 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
听(2013 - Cambridge University Press)
Articles & Book Chapters
鈥淪hared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental听Control in the Aeneid鈥 Conversing with Chaos in Greco鈥怰oman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts 2024
鈥淓pic Remembrances: Contesting the Gender of Memory in Brand New Ancients and Dido鈥檚 Lament鈥 Antiquity in Progress 2024
鈥淩emembering the Future in Tacitus鈥 Annals: Germanicus鈥 Death and Contests of Commemoration鈥 Future Thinking in Roman Culture: New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
鈥淎 Landscape of Control? Aeneid 8 and Environmental Agency鈥 Vita Latina 2021
鈥淕endered Patterns: Constructing Time in the Communities of Catullus 64鈥 2020
鈥Grief, Distance, and Shadows in听Aen. 12.945-52: A听Sphragis听for the听 Book of Vergil听The Classical Journal听113: 303-33听听 2018 (PDF)
鈥Allure without Allusion: Quoting a Virgilian Epitaph in a 9/11 Memorial听Interfaces听38: 173-94听 2016- 2017
鈥Genre, Gallus, and Goats: Expanding the Limits of Pastoral in听听Eclogues听6 and 10鈥 Vergilius听62: 3-23 2016
鈥Catullan Myths: Gender, Mourning, and the Death of a Brother鈥澨鼵lassical Antiquity听35: 279-314 2016
"鈥澨鼸pekeina: International Journal of Ontology, History and Critics听4: 141-75听 听[Special volume:听Evil, Progress, and Fall:听Moral Readings of Time and听Cultural Development in Roman Literature听]听 2014
The Boundaries of Violence in Horatius鈥 Battles (Livy 1.22-26)鈥 (New England Classical Journal)听 2012
(American Journal of Philology)听 2012