Biography
Aaron Seider is Dean of Faculty and Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. 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
Memory in Vergil's Aeneid: Creating the Past (2013 - Cambridge University Press)
Articles & Book Chapters
“Shared Suffering and Cyclical Destruction: Failures of Environmental Control in the Aeneid” Conversing with Chaos in Greco‐Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts 2024
“Epic Remembrances: Contesting the Gender of Memory in Brand New Ancients and Dido’s 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