Anna Lydia Motto, PhD

Biography: Anna Lydia Motto is a professor of classics at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She received her PhD degree at the University of North Carolina where she held a Fellowship. She is the recipient of a number of awards including an Ovatio for outstanding scholarship from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. She was Vice President of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Motto has published seven books and numerous articles on Seneca the Philosopher and has read many papers at national and regional conferences. Motto is the coauthor, with John R. Clark, of Essays on Seneca (P. Lang, 1993) and Senecan Tragedy (A. M. Hakkert, 1988) and the author of Seneca's Moral Epistles (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001).