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

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 20, 2026** 

 04:00PM EST 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

## [CLASSICAL TRADITIONS AND RECEPTIONS](/classical-traditions)

## 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.



 

 



 

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