Speaker: Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania

Cynthia Damon is a Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage (1997), a commentary on Tacitus, Histories 1 (2003), a translation of Tacitus’ Annals in the Penguin series (2013), and, with Will Batstone, Caesar’s Civil War (2006). She recently published an OCT of Caesar’s Bellum civile, a companion volume on the text of the Bellum civile (2015), and a new Loeb edition of the Civil War (2016). She is currently preparing a pilot edition of the Bellum Alexandrinum for the Library of Digital Latin Texts and a variorum commentary on Tacitus' Agricola for the Dickinson College Commentaries.