Classical Studies PhD Student
William Bruckel earned a BA in Ancient Greek from Fordham University (2011) and an MA from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2015). His main areas of interest are in Attic drama as a vehicle for public intellectualism and in archaic poetry, especially Iambos. However, Will is also interested in Latin literature, particularly Cicero and Vergil, and has presented on tragic motifs in the Aeneid.
Dissertation-in-Progress:
Athens’ Tragic Sage: the Solonian Tradition in the Plays of Aeschylus
First Reader: Scully
Recent Papers:
- “Heed my Decree, People of Athens: Solon’s Elegy and Aeschylus’ Democratic Advocacy.” – University of Virginia’s Graduate Colloquium, March 30, 2019 (Charlottesville, VA)
- “The Furious Nobility: Aeschylus, Solon, and the Athenian Aristocracy.” – Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 11-14, 2018 (Albuquerque, NM)
- “Euripides’ Hippolytus in Aeneid IV.” – Society for Classical Studies, January 5-8, 2017 (Toronto, Ontario)