Join us for the inaugural lecture of our new annual Masciantonio-Davis Colloquium on Latin and Greek Pedagogy, featuring panelists Dr. Martha A. Davis and Dr. Deborah A. Roberts.  

Martha A. Davis is Associate Professor Emerita at Temple University. Her pioneering article “Ratis audax: Valerius Flacccus’ Bold Ship,” has recently been reprinted in the Oxford Readings in Flavian Epic (ed. A. Augustakis). Her dedication to pedagogy at all levels and in multiple languages earned her a Violet B. Ketels Award from the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University, the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Society for Classical Studies; an Ovatio from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eta Sigma Phi Society.

She now teaches Latin and Comparative Mythology to grateful students at the Hatboro-Horsham Adult Evening School. Deborah H. Roberts is Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at Haverford College, where she taught Greek and Latin at all levels and courses in classical and comparative literature. She works primarily on Greek tragedy, classical reception, and translation studies; recent publications include (with Sheila Murnaghan) Childhood and the Classics: Britain and America, 1850-1965 (Oxford 2018); “The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators,” in A Companion to Aeschylus, ed. J. Bromberg and P. Burian (Wiley-Blackwell 2023); and “Translating Male-Male Desire: Jack Lindsay and his Illustrators,” forthcoming in Translation and Literature 34 (2025). She has translated Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Persians (Hackett 2012, 2024) and other tragedies.