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• Professor of Classics, Union College (2024 – present)

• Associate Professor of Classics, Union College (2020 – 2024)

• Assistant Professor of Classics, Union College (2014 – 2020)

• Assistant Professor and Head of the Classics Program, The University of Memphis (2012 – 2014)

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College (2010 – 2012)

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• Ph.D. 2010, Yale University

• M.Phil. 2008, Yale University

• M.A. 2006, Yale University

• M.A. 2003, Johns Hopkins University

• Italian Laurea, (summa cum laude), 2001 Università degli Studi di Pisa.

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• Silver Latin Literature

• Roman Comedy (in particular Plautus)

• Roman Stoicism

• Ancient Rhetoric

• Roman Law

• Ancient Medicine and Science

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Books - Monographs, Editions, and Edited Volumes

• GAZZARRI, T. (ed., trans. and comment.), Seneca. De tranquillitate animi. Classici Greci e Latini. Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2024.

• GAZZARRI, T.,/WEINER, J. (eds.), Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity.  Leiden (Brill), 2023.

• GAZZARRI, T. The Stylus and the Scalpel. A Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Prose. Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

             Reviews: C. Whitton, G&R, 68.2 (2001): 300-312; C. Stark, JRS (2022): 1.2 402-404; A. Casamento, Ciceroniana 6.1 (2022), 159-162.

• GAZZARRI, T. (ed., trans., and comment.), Plauto. Poenulus e Truculentus. Classici Greci e Latini. Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2015.

Reviews: M.M. Bianco, Bollettino di Studi Latini, 46.1 (2016): 350-353; G. Sorrentino, CR 66.2 (2016): 402-404.

• GAZZARRI, T. (ed., trans., and comment.), Seneca. De Brevitate Vitae. Classici Greci e Latini. Milan: Oscar Mondadori, 2010.

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Journal Special Issues

• GAZZARRI, T.,/BERNO, F.R. (eds.) Seneca. Love letters. Rome, 2022. (= LAS 2)

• GAZZARRI, T.,/BERNO, F.R. (eds.) Lucius Annaeus Seneca: New Perspectives in Senecan Studies - Inaugural Issue.Rome,  2021. (= LAS 1).

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Articles and Book Chapters​

• GAZZARRI, T. “Peace of Mind is Movement. An Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Seneca’s Ideal of Tranquillitas.” In Horn (ed.) Metaphors of the Ancient World: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Ancient Sources, Forthcoming Boston/Berlin, 2025: 247-269.

• GAZZARRI, T.  “A Textual Observation on Imperia Praeceptorum at De Tranquillitate Animi 1.10,” forthcoming Latomus 83.2 (2024): 296-305

• GAZZARRI, T.  “A Note on Seneca De Tranquillitate Animi 1.10,” forthcoming Latomus 83.2 (2024): 370.

• GAZZARRI, T., and WEINER, J. "Introduction." In "Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity." In Gazzarri/Weiner 2023: 1-23.

• ​​GAZZARRI, T. “Perhaps a Fish, Surely an Ostrich, and Definitely a Fool. The Ontology of Insults at De Constantia Sapientis 17.1.”  AJPh 144.2 (2023): 285-320.

• GAZZARRI, T. and BERNO, F.R., "Seneca, lettere d'amore. Introduzione." LAS 2 (2022): 5-10.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Due letture della cornice della lettera 64 di Seneca, 1. La simbologia del fumo.” LAS 1 (2021): 9-24.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Sub Auro Servitus Habitat. Seneca's Moralizing of Architecture and the Anti-Neronian Querelle”. In Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Works. Papaioannou/Garani/Michaloupoulos 2020: 161-178.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Cinaedus Galbinatus: Cultural Perception of the Color “Green” and its Gender Association with Pathici in Rome." EuGeSta 9 (2019): 79-107. Reprinted in Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity. Gazzarri/Weiner 2023: 123-153.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Patruae Verbera Linguae and the Ius Osculi in Horace, Carm. 3.12.” CW 112.3 (2019): 151-160.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Phronesium, the Lex Oppia and the Composition of the Truculentus.” RhM 161 (2018): 1-21.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca's Epistulae Morales.” In Seneca Philosophus. Colish/Wildberger 2014: 209-227.

• GAZZARRI, T. “The Meaning of “Nocte Intempesta” in Satyricon 101.5.” Maia 61.2 (2009): 274-284.

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Encyclopedia Entries

• GAZZARRI, T. “Chaeremon of Alexandria”. The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 September 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14484]

• GAZZARRI, T. “Poenulus". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 September 2016 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35813]

• GAZZARRI, T. “Musonius Rufus". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 June 2016 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13787]

• GAZZARRI, T. “De Brevitate Vitae". The Literary Encyclopedia. First Published 26 October 2015. [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35683]

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Reviews

• GAZZARRI, T. Review of Stöckinger, M., Winter, K., and Zanker, A., eds. Horace and Seneca. Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations. Berlin-Boston, 2017. Gnomon 95.5. (2023): 408-412.

• GAZZARRI, T. Review of Berno, F. R. (ed.), De Constantia Sapientis. La fermezza del saggio. Napoli, 2018. BMCR 2019.08.45.

• GAZZARRI, T. Review ofmSjöblad A., Metaphorical Coherence. Studies in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales. (StudiaGraeca et Latina Lundensia 20.) pp. 82. Lund: Lund University, 2015. Paper. ISBN: 978-91-637-9425-4. CR 67.1 (2017): 109-111.

• GAZZARRI, T. Review of Peter J. Anderson, Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations. Translated with introduction and notes by Peter J. Anderson. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 2015. New England Classical Journal 43.2 (2016): 121-123.

• GAZZARRI, T. Review of Costa S., “Quod olim fuerat": la rappresentazione del passato in Seneca prosatore. Spudasmata, Bd 152. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2015. Gnomon 88.3 (2016): 213- 216.

• GAZZARRI, T. Review of Thorsteinsson R.M., Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism. A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality. Pp. xiv + 248. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. CR 62.1 (2011): 111-113.

• GAZZARRI, T. Review of Seneca minor. - La Clemenza, Apocolocyntosis, Epigrammi, Frammenti di Lucio Anneo Seneca. A cura di Luciano de Biasi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Ermanno Malaspina e Dionigi Vottero. Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese 2009. 841 S. (Classici Latini). Gnomon 83.8 (2011): 752-754.​

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• GAZZARRI, T./BERNO, F.R.  (eds.) “New Perspectives on Musonian Studies.” (edited volume in preparation)

• GAZZARRI, T. “L.A. Cornutus". The Literary Encyclopedia.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Rara Avis: The Phoenix and Seneca’s Appropriation of Egyptian Culture”.

• GAZZARRI, T. “Hadrian’s Animula and Seneca's Consolatio ad Helviam Matrem”.​

• Summer 2024, Vita Beata. Roundtable - XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rοme.

• Summer 2024, De Otio. Ch. 2. Sapienza Università di Roma.

• Winter 2022, UCLA (via ZOOM). "Cinaedi: A Litmus Test for the history of Sexuality."

• October 2021, La Sapienza University of Rome. Launch via ZOOM of the new international journal of Senecan studies (LAS), as part of the international symposium on "Seneca's Love Letters".

• April, 2019, Williams College. Seminar Class on Seneca’s De Constantia Sapientis. A workshop offered to the students in cooperation with A. Wilcox (Williams College) and F.R. Berno (La Sapienza, Università di Roma).

• October 2018, Annual GMALL Conferences Cycle, Dorset, VT. “A Brief History of Capital Punishment in the Ancient Roman World”.

• October 2018, Annual CAAS meeting, Philadelphia, PA. “Cinaedus Galbinatus: Cultural Perception of the Color “Green” and its Gender Association with Pathici in Rome”.

• May 2017 Annual UCall Series, Schenectady, NY. “Ancient Religion in Greece and Rome. A Brief Survey”.

• December 2018, Schenectady Public Library. “Seneca’s De Tranquillitate Animi”.

• Nov. 2017, Liceo Classico Ginnasio Galilei. “Ancient Metaphor, Part II. Cicero and Quintilian”.

• Nov. 2017, Liceo Classico Ginnasio Galilei. “Ancient Metaphor, Part I. Aristotle and the Stoics”.

• Nov. 2017, La Sapienza – University of Rome. “Seneca and the Theory of Metaphors”.

• May 2017, International Conference on Senecan Intertextuality, University of Athens. “Sub auro servitus habitat. Seneca's Moralizing of Architecture and the Anti-Neronian Querelle”.

• Oct. 2015, Annual CAES meeting, Syracuse, NY. “The Age of Innocence? Parthenoi, Neaniskoi and the Perception of Sexual Risk in Classical Athens.

• Mar. 2014, Union College: “Truculentus and the Abrogation of the Lex Oppia" and Oct. 2014, Annual CAAS meeting, Washington DC.

• Nov. 2012, Annual TFLTA meeting, Franklin, TN: “The Stomach as a paradigm of moral corruption in Seneca’s philosophical preaching”.

• Mar. 2011, University of Cincinnati, March 2012 – The University of Memphis and Nov. 2012 - University of Mississippi, Oxford, MI, “Der Mensch ist, was er is(s)t”. Food, Gender Construction and Moral Teaching in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales”.

• Mar. 2011, Union College. “Dying in Silence: The Execution of Women in the Ancient World”.

• Oct. 2010, Annual CAAS meeting, Newark, NY and May 2011 American University of Paris: Seneca Philosophus: An International Conference hosted by the AUP and GANPH (Gesellschaftfür Antike Philosophie). “Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca's Epistulae Morales”.

• Oct. 2010, Annual CAES meeting, Union College. “The Endless Wait: How Women Should Live According to Roman Poets”.

• Feb. 2009, Annual CANE meeting, Boston, MA. “Bald Women with Gout. Engendering Moral Illness in Seneca’s Epistula 95”.

• Oct. 2008, Annual CAAS meeting, Princeton, NJ. ""kouk' etheloisa" – Even Against Her Will. A portrayal of the Latin Sappho”.

• Departmental Workshop, Yale University, New Haven. “Lesbian Sappho in Latin Poetry”.

• Apr. 2008 – Graduate Conference, CUNY, New York, NY. “The Philosopher and the Occupatus. The Dialectic of Property in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales”.

• Jan. 2008, Annual APA meeting, Chicago, IL. “Property and Interiority: Some Aspects of Juridical Language in Seneca”.

• Feb. 2004, Departmental Workshop, Yale University, New Haven. “The Discovery of Tacitus’ Minor Works in the XV Century”.

• Nov. 2003, Graduate Conference, The University of Texas, Austin. “Satyricon 101.5: A Case of Irony Regained”.

• Sept. 2003, Departmental Workshop, Yale University, New Haven. “Aboard Licha’s ship. Text and Transmission of Satyricon 100.1-110.5”.

• Jan. 2003, Graduate Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ““Nocte Intempesta": Analysis of Shipwreck Rituals for an Alternative Interpretation of the Expression”.

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• Co-organizer, co-chair, and respondent of SCS (former APA) Panel: “New Perspectives on Musonian Studies”. Chicago, IL, January 2024

• Chair of CAAS Panel: “Roman Literature: New Approaches and Theories”. Philadelphia, PA, October 2023.

• Chair of CAAS Panel: “Antiquity on the Modern Page, Stage, and Screen”. Wilmington, DE, October 2022.

• Co-organizer, co-chair, and respondent of SCS (former APA) Panel: “Legalized it: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law”. Chicago, IL, January 2021

• Co-organizer, co-chair, and respondent of SCS (former APA) Panel: “Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity”. San Diego, CA, January 2019

• Chair of Session #4 “Wittiness (ἐυτραπελία)” of The International Symposium on Aristotle: “Virtue and Emotion in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics IV.5-9" (Union College).

• Co-organizer, co-chair, and respondent of APA Panel: “Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism". Chicago, IL, January 2014

• The David L. Sigsbee Memorial Lectures (Creator and director of the series). Memphis, TN, Spring 2014.

• Co-organizer of the 2003 James Poultney Lecture (Johns Hopkins University). Guest speaker Prof. Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University.

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UNION COLLEGE

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College Level

• Director of the “Law and Humanities Minor” (Fall 2022 – present)

• AAC division #1 representative member Fall 2021 ad interim, Fall 2022-present as a regular representative

• AAC Chair (Fall 2022-2023) – Ex officio: (1) member of the advisory committee of covid, (2) member of the sub-council for new course approvals, (3) member of the interviewing committee for departmental external reviews

• Mini-term abroad leader for the Populonia mini-term

• Committee for the implementation of a language curricular requirement

• Exhibit on ancient Roman glasses (The Carl George Collection)

• Committee on LGBTQ+ affairs (from its foundation -2022)

• Committee on Facilities

• General Education Board

•  Junior Jump Start

• UCID

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Departmental Level

• Founder of the Udig archaeological initiative

• Selection committees for CYA terms abroad in Athens (x2)

• Search committee for AP (x1)

• Search committee for VAP (x2)

• Organization of select lectures (guest speakers):

  • M. Graver (Dartmouth College)

  • F.R. Berno (University of Rome)

  • S. Papaioannou (University of Athens)

  • S. Ferrara (University of Bologna)

  • Amy Oh (Skidmore College)

• Departmental website development (2014-present)

• Classics Club

• Responsible for classics honor society ΗΣΦ (2014-present)

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UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

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• Classics/Italian Search Committee

• Department Advisory Council

• Head of the Classics Program

• Creation of interdepartmental Classics minor

• Founder of the Classical Club

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• CAAS - Regional Director for Eastern NY - Fall 2022 - present

• CAAS - Member of the Program Committee - Fall 2021 - present

• Co-founder and co-director of LAS - Lucius Annaeus Seneca: International Journal of Senecan Studies

• Member of the scientific committee of Pan - Rivista di Filologia Latina, (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

• Member of the scientific committee of Lumina (book series for the publishing house De Gruyter)

• Referee for TAPA, CJ, MAIA, OUP, Cognitive Linguistics, Ancient Narrative, AJPh

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• Fall 2023, Union College - Cicero and Seneca

• Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Union College and Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, The University of Memphis – Intermediate Latin.

• Fall 2016, Fall 2023, Union College - Upper Intermediate Greek.

• Spring 2016, Union College - Intermediate Greek.

• Spring 2016, Union College - Roman Drama: from Plautus to Seneca.

• Winter 2016, Winter 2023, Union College - Beginning Greek.

• Fall 2015, Union College - Performing Gender in Ancient Rome (as a Research Seminar -SRS).

• Spring 2015, Union College - Roman Satire: An Overview.

• Winter 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2024, Union College - Sex and Gender in Classical Greece (both as a research seminar and as a lecture class).

• Spring 2014, The University of Memphis – Advanced Latin.

• Winter 2017 and Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Union College and Fall 2013, The University of Memphis – Pre-Intermediate Latin.

• Spring 2013, The University of Memphis – Latin Love Poetry.

• Fall 2012, The University of Memphis – Roman Historians.

• Fall 2012, Fall 2013, The University of Memphis and Fall 2017, Union College – Elementary Latin.

• Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2020, Fall 2022, Winter 2024, Union College – Reason and Passions in the Ancient World.

• Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2018, Union College – Elementary Latin.

• Spring 2011, Union College – Introduction to Greek Comedy.

• Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Union College – Engineering in the Ancient World

• Winter 2011, Union College – Entrepreneurship in the Ancient World.

• Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2017, Spring 2019, Union College and Spring 2014, The University of Memphis – Capital Punishment in the Ancient World.

• Fall 2010, Union College and Fall 2013, The University of Memphis – Classical Mythology.

• Spring 2010, Yale University – Introduction to Latin: Selected Readings. As Teaching Fellow.

• Fall 2009, Yale University – Latin Prose. (Apuleius). As Teaching Fellow.

• Spring 2009, Yale University – Western Art from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. As TA for Prof. A. Nemerov.

• Spring 2009, Yale University – Introduction to Latin Literature. As TA for Prof. K. Freudenburg.

• Spring 2007, Yale University – Introduction to Latin Poetry. (Vergil, Aeneid). As Teaching Fellow.

• Fall 2006, Yale University – The Elements of Latin Grammar. As Teaching Fellow.

• Spring 2006, Yale University – Intermediate Latin: Review of Grammar and Selected Readings. (Selected reading from Bellum Civile, Bellum Alexandrinum and Catullus). As Teaching Fellow.

• Fall 2005, Yale University – Latin Prose, an Introduction. (Cicero, Pro Archia, Somnium Scipi- onis; Seneca, Apokolokyntosis). As Teaching Fellow.

• Summer 2003, Johns Hopkins University – Intensive Latin.

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• James Hogan, TDB. Fall 2023/Winter 2024. (Senior Thesis)

• Mark Goldshare, "The System of Roman Roads in the Italian Peninsula in the Early-Republican Age". Fall 2023/Winter 2024. (OTM Project)

• Samuel Perry, "Mediterranean Traditions of Aphrodite". Fall 2022/Winter 2023. (Senior Thesis)

• David Sherwood, "Classical Imagination and the Apocalypse". Fall 2022/Winter 2023. (Senior Thesis)

• Madeline Rioux, "The Revolt of Queen Boudicca". Fall 2022/Winter 2023. (Senior Thesis)

• Francesco Di Iorio, "The Battle of Alesia". Fall 2021. (Independent Study).

• Molly McLeod, “The Vocabulary of Kinship in the Classical World”. Spring 2020. (Independent Study). 

• Austin Dorsey, “Socrates' Trial". Spring 2020. (Independent Study).

• Marika Contompasis, “The Significance of Luxury Goods: A Diachronic Analysis from Classical Antiquity to Contemporary North-American Society”. Spring 2020 (Co-Advisor - Senior thesis).

• Jeremy Jordan, “A Noble Life: Virtue and Liberty in Aristotle's Political Thought". Winter 2017. (Independent Study).

• Brian Alebiosou, “A Reconstruction of the Contemporary Campaign Designed to Manifest Social Integration in Pursuit of Increasing Social Mobility". Spring 2017. (Co-Advisor - Senior thesis).

• Kathryn Evans, “Different Roles, Different Rules: How Liberties and Limitations Varied for Wives and Prostitutes in Classical Athens". Spring 2017. (Main Advisor - Senior thesis). Recipient of the President's Commission on the Status of Women's Senior Scholarly Activity Award.

• Emily Pastore, “Modern Interpretations of Ancient Roman Mosaics". Spring 2016. (Co-advisor - Senior thesis).

• Shivangi Mehta, “Democracy and Citizenship in Athens. A Counterintuitive Relationship". Spring 2016. (Co-advisor - Senior thesis).

• Aurora Butera, “The Theodosian Code". Spring 2016. (Co-advisor - Senior thesis).

• Anthony LoBrace, “Socrates' Trial". Spring 2016. (Co-advisor - Senior thesis).

• Gianluca Avanzato, “A Nation Divided: The Failed Unification of Italy and the Emergence of Italian Orientalism". Spring 2016. (Independent study). Recipient of the Edward Everett Hale Jr. Prize.

• Andrea Schwartz, “Water and Engineering in the Graeco-Roman World”. May 2012. (Main advisor - Senior thesis).

• Joe Cardino, “War and Taxation in Ancient Rome”. March 2012. (Secondary advisor - Senior thesis).

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• 2017 - Loeb Foundation Fellowship (35.000 USD)

• 2016 - CAAS Resource Grant (600 USD)

• 2011 - IEF Union College Fund (369 USD)

• 2010,  -11, -14, -15, -16, -17, -18, - 22, -23 Union College Conference Fund (13.000 USD total)

• 2010, -11, -17, -18, - 22, -23 Union college HFRF Fund (16.300 USD total)

• 2008 - Yale University, John F. Enders Fellowship

• 2008 - Yale University, Dissertation Fellowship

• 2006, -07, -08 - Yale University, Berkeley, Biddle, Woosley Travel Grant

• 2003 to -09 - Yale University, Ph.D. fellowship

• Spring 2003 - Johns Hopkins University, Teaching Assistantship

• Fall 2002 - Johns Hopkins University, Research Assistantship

• 2001 - Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Fellowship

• 2001 - Università degli Studi di Pisa, Laurea summa cum laude - Full Remission Tuition

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• Fluent in French, English, and Italian (native)

• Trained in Latin and Ancient Greek

• Reading knowledge of German and Spanish

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• SCS (Society for Classical Studies. Former APA)

• CAC (The Classical Association of Canada)

• CA (The Classical Association. U.K.)

• CANE (The Classical Association of New England)

• CAAS (The Classical Association of the Atlantic States)

• Classical Club of New York

• CAES (Classical Association of the Empire State)

• WCC (Women Classical Caucus)

• LCC (Lambda Classical Caucus)

• SIAC (Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron)

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