Vassiliki  Panoussi

Robert and Sara Boyd Distinguished Associate Professor

Office: Morton Hall 326
Phone: 757 221 2993
Email: [[panoussi]]

Background

Professor Panoussi's research focuses on Latin Literature of the Late Republic and early Empire, and on Vergil in particular. She is also interested in the study of women and gender in antiquity and in Greco-Roman religion. Her book Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext was published by Cambridge University Press (2009). She has taught a range of courses on Greek and Roman literature and culture and all levels of Greek and Latin. She is currently at work on a book project on women's religious experiences in Roman Literature. For a full curriculum vitae, please click HERE.

Education

Ph.D. in Classics, Brown University, Providence, RI

BA (Ptychion) in Classical Philology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Courses Taught

At W&M:

Beginning Latin

Intermediate Latin

• Letters of Seneca and Pliny
• Catullus and Vergil

Advanced Greek

• Greek Historians
• Greek Tragedy
• Greek Lyric Poetry

Advanced Latin

• Vergil's Aeneid
• The Rhetoric of Cruelty
• Latin Love Poetry

Classical Civilization

• Greek Mythology
• Greek Civilization
• Women in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Ritual, Authority, and Power in Latin Literature (advanced interdisciplinary seminar)
• The Voyage of the Hero

Research

Work in Progress and Recent Publications:

Books:

• Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature (in progress)
• Greek Tragedy in Vergil’s Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext. Cambridge University Press: New York and Cambridge (2009)

Select Article-length studies:

• "Sulpicia's Gendered Poetics" (in progress)
• "Herodotus' Funerary Epigrams"(in progress)
• " The Harry Potter book series and Vergil's Aeneid" (in progress)
• “Aeneas’ Sacral Authority,” in A Companion to Virgil, J. Farrell and M. Putnam, eds. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford 2010): 52-65
• “Roman Cultural Identity in Cicero’s Pro Archia,” in Ἀντιφίλησις: Studies on Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture in Honour of John-Theophanes A. Papademetriou, E. Karamalengou and E. Makrygianni, eds. Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart 2009): 516-23.
• “Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems,” in A Companion to Catullus, M. Skinner, ed. Blackwell: Oxford (2007): 276-92.
• “Threat and Hope: Women’s Rituals and Civil War in Roman Epic,” in Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in Greece and Rome, M. Parca and A. Tzanetou, eds. Indiana University Press: Bloomington (2007): 114-34.

Fellowships and Grants