Antonia Syson
Antonia Syson | |
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| Born | 23 February 1973 |
| Died | 25 March 2018 (aged 45) Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| Nationality | British-American |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Reading for the Novel: Knowledge, Persuasion, and the Divine Narratives of Vergil’s Aeneid |
Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (23 February 1973 - 25 March 2018) was a British-American classical scholar specialising in the study of Virgil's Aeneid.[1][2]
Early life
Antonia was born in Botswana whilst her father, John, was private secretary to the president,
Hungerford primary school and Camden School for Girls. In 1991 Antonia went to Magdalen College, Oxford to study Classics under Oliver Taplin before, in 1995, taking her PhD in classics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]
Antonia credited her Latin teachers at Camden and Birmingham for helping her develop her lasting connection to Classics.
Career
Her 2003 thesis, supervised by
tenure.[1]
Select publications
- Syson, A. 2009. "Born to Speak: Ingenium and Natura in Tacitus’s Dialogue on Orators", Arethusa 42(1). 45–75.
- Syson, A. 2012. "Reading the Aeneid with Intermediate Latin Students", Teaching Classical Languages 4(1). 44–63.
- Syson, A. 2013. Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid. Ohio State University Press.
- Syson, A. 2017. "Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy". in Stevens, B. and Rogers, B. (eds) Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy. Oxford. 233–249.
References
- ^ a b c d "In Memoriam: Antonia Syson". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ a b c Lawrence, A. (24 June 2018). "Antonia Syson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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