Antonia Syson
British-American classical scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Antonia Jane Reobone Syson was a British-American classical scholar specialising in the study of Virgil'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. Antonia credited her Latin teachers at Camden and Birmingham for helping her develop her lasting connection to Classics.
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- Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid (2013) (5)
- Born to Speak: Ingenium and Natura in Tacitus’s Dialogue on Orators (2009) (4)
- Memoria Romana: Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory . By Karl Galinsky (ed.). Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Supp. 10. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Pp. [xii] + 193. (2016) (1)
- Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy (2017) (1)
- Letter from the Editor (2000) (0)
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