Marianthe Colakis, PhD
Biography:
Marianthe Colakis has taught at Trinity College (Hartford), Queens College, Brooklyn College, and Davidson College. She is currently teaching at Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York. Colakis holds a PhD in classics from Yale University. Much of her scholarly work has involved modern adaptations of classical myths and tragedies; her first book was The Classics in the American Theater of the 1960's and Early 1970's (University Press of America, 1993). In recent years, she has turned her efforts toward development of pedagogical materials. Colakis is author (with Gaylan DuBose) of Excelability in Advanced Latin: A Workbook for Students (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2003), coauthor with Mary Joan Masello of Classical Mythology and More: A Reader Workbook (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007), coauthor with Yasuko Taoka, Lectiones Memorabiles Volume III: Selections from Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Livy, Ovid, and Vergil (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2018), and author of Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume I: Selections from Catullus, Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, and Vergil (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2015) and Lectiones Memorabiles Volume V: Selections from Aulus Gellius, Eutropius, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Seneca, and Tibullus (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (2022) forthcoming.