Newport News Public Library
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Program Scholar
Vassiliki (Lily) Panoussi, Assistant Professor
Classical Studies Department
College of William and Mary
Program Scholar for the Newport News Public Library
Professor Vassiliki (Lily) Panoussi received her B.A in Classical Philology, from the University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1989) and her Ph.D. in Classics, at Brown University (1998). She teaches at the College of William and Mary and has held other teaching positions at Williams College and the University of Virginia. Panoussi’s research focuses on Latin Literature of the first centuries BCE and CE and on Vergil in particular. Her book, Greek Tragedy in Vergil’s Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. She has published several articles on various Latin authors, including on women and gender in ancient Rome. She is currently working on a new book, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women’s Rituals in Roman Literature.
Previous Events
Reading Group
Homer's Odyssey, Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Join Program Scholar, Professor Lily Panoussi for a reading group at the Pearl Bailey Branch of the Newport News Public Library
For more information, please call 757-926-1350 Click here for directions
April 28 2009 at 06:30 PM
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Reading Group
Pursuit of Happyness directed by Gabriele Muccino
Join Program Scholar, Professor Lily Panoussi for a reading group at the Pearl Bailey Branch of the Newport News Public Library
2410 Wickham Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607
For more information, please call 757-926-1350 Click here for directions
April 14 2009 at 06:30 PM
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Reading Group
Homer's Iliad, Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Join Program Scholar, Professor Lily Panoussi for a reading group at the Pearl Bailey Branch of the Newport News Public Library
2410 Wickham Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607
For more information, please call 757-926-1350 Click here for directions
March 31 2009 at 06:30 PM
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Reading Group
I am Legend directed by Francis Lawrence
Join Program Scholar, Professor Lily Panoussi for a reading group at the Pearl Bailey Branch of the Newport News Public Library
2410 Wickham Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607
For more information, please call 757-926-1350 Click here for directions
March 10 2009 at 06:30 PM
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Acting Workshop
Join the Pearl Bailey Branch of the Newport News Public Library at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center for an Acting Workshop
2510 Wickham Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607
Registration is required and begins Jan. 11 online at www.nngov.com/library/custom/onlinereg or by calling Pearl Bailey Library at 757-247-8677.
For more information, please call 757-926-1350.
February 11 2009 at 05:00 PM
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Iliad Performance
Join the Pearl Bailey Branch of the Newport News Public Library for a performance of Homer's Iliad at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center
2510 Wickham Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607
For more information, please call 757-926-1350.
February 11 2009 at 05:00 PM
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This library is focusing on the thematic unit “Homer to Hip-Hop: Reinventing the Classics”
