Antonia Syson

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]

Antonia Syson
Born(1973-02-23)23 February 1973
Botswana
Died25 March 2018(2018-03-25) (aged 45)
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
NationalityBritish-American
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisReading for the Novel: Knowledge, Persuasion, and the Divine Narratives of Vergil’s Aeneid

Early life

Antonia was born in Botswana whilst her father, John, was private secretary to the president, Sir Seretse Khama and her mother, Lucy, was undertaking research on rural development for the United Nations. The Sysons returned to the UK in 1973 where Antonia attended 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]

Career

Her 2003 thesis, supervised by Kathleen McCarthy was titled “Reading for the Novel: Knowledge, Persuasion, and the Divine Narratives of Vergil’s Aeneid”. After graduating she spent one year at Northwestern University as a Mellon Postdoctoral fellow in Classics, before moving to the University of Chicago as lecturer in Latin (2004–2006), and then to Dartmouth College as lecturer in Classics (2006–2008).[1] In 2008, she joined the classics faculty at Purdue University, Indiana.[2] In 2014 she was promoted to Associate Professor with 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.
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References
  1. "In Memoriam: Antonia Syson". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  2. Lawrence, A. (24 June 2018). "Antonia Syson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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