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