Vassiliki Panoussi
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.
