Mantlets and sallies and tribes, oh my! On Caesar’s empire-building in translation

CLASSICAL TRADITIONS AND RECEPTIONS

SPEAKER: Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania Emerita

Cynthia Damon is a Professor of Classical Studies, Emerita, at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Mask of the Parasite (1997), commentaries on and translations of Tacitus (Histories 1 [2003], Agricola [2017], Annals [2013]), texts of Caesar’s Gallic and Civil Wars (2015, 2016, 2025), and, with Will Batstone, Caesar’s Civil War (2006). With colleages she produced edited volumes on Roman civil war (2010) and Ennius (2020), and with students a digital critical edition of the Bellum Alexandrinum (2022). Current projects include studies of Pliny’s Natural History and its reception.