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Fall 2025 Webinars

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

5:00–5:45 pm Central Time
“Voicing Your Agency: Role Models and their Verbs in Pliny's Letters”
Jonathan Mannering, Loyola University Chicago

Written in the political environment which had been left scorched by Domitian's brutality, the Letters of Pliny the Younger can be read as serving a societal objective of rehabilitating interpersonal relations that had been severely strained if not broken by an autocratic regime. Pliny uses the conventions of the epistolary genre to portray people from recent history as well as people he knows in an idealized way which renders them exemplars. By focusing on the portrayals of key individuals, we can see how Pliny's readership may be encouraged to emulate their best characteristics. Finite verbs are a particularly rich locus for discerning the types of agency that make certain Romans unique and worth remembering.

Jonathan Mannering is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the department’s Dual Credit Mentor for Latin. Mannering is a master teacher who has taught all levels of Latin as well as classical mythology and courses in-translation. He most recently served as president of the Kappa of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Mannering earned his BA in classics at the University of Chicago and an MPhil and PhD from King’s College, Cambridge University. His scholarly interests include Roman literature of the Latin Republic and Early Empire; rhetoric and rhetorical theory; quotation and cultural reproduction.

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New AP Latin Curriculum Webinars

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