{"id":7325,"date":"2020-09-14T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7325"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:16:17","slug":"william-bruckel","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/william-bruckel\/","title":{"rendered":"William Bruckel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dissertation-in-Progress:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Athens\u2019 Tragic Sage: the Solonian Tradition in the Plays of Aeschylus<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><span>First Reader: Scully<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201c<span dir=\"ltr\"><em><\/em><\/span><em>Heed my Decree, People of Athens<\/em>: Solon\u2019s Elegy and Aeschylus\u2019 Democratic Advocacy<em>.\u201d &#8211; <\/em>University of Virginia\u2019s Graduate Colloquium, March 30, 2019 (Charlottesville, VA)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Furious Nobility: Aeschylus, Solon, and the Athenian Aristocracy.\u201d &#8211; Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 11-14, 2018 (Albuquerque, NM)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEuripides\u2019\u00a0<em>Hippolytus\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0<em>Aeneid IV.\u201d &#8211; <\/em>Society for Classical Studies, January 5-8, 2017 (Toronto, Ontario)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15498,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7325\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}