Mallory Monaco
Profile
A graduate of Georgetown University, I came to Princeton in 2007 and am broadly interested in Greek and Latin prose (especially historiography, biography, and epistolography), Hellenistic history, and Greek epigraphy. I enjoy finding the artistic aspects of historical documents and the historical import of literary texts. I spent a summer as a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Summer Session, and another excavating the Hellenistic baths at Morgantina, Sicily.
I am currently writing my dissertation entitled “The Hellenistic Past in Plutarch's Lives”, a study of the six Greek Lives (Eumenes, Demetrius, Pyrrhus, Aratus, Agis and Cleomenes) and one complete pair of Lives (Philopoemen-Flamininus) in which Plutarch portrays the Greek world between the death of Alexander and the coming of Rome. The goal of this project is to examine how Plutarch used the memory of the Hellenistic past to teach moral and political lessons which could be applied by Greeks under the Roman Empire. I also have a more specific interest in the Life of Demetrius and other stories connected to Demetrius Poliorketes, and have worked a number of small side projects related to this Life, which I hope will someday culminate in a detailed commentary.
This year, I am an adjunct instructor in the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia. I taught an undergraduate seminar on the private lives of public figures in political biographies from Plutarch to JFK in the fall; in the spring semester, I will be teaching fourth-semester Latin.
This year, I am an adjunct instructor in the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia. I taught an undergraduate seminar on the private lives of public figures in political biographies from Plutarch to JFK in the fall; in the spring semester, I will be teaching fourth-semester Latin.