About Juvenal, the Nashville Parthenon, and animated representations of the classical world.

Chiara Sulprizio is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a B.A. in Classics from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Southern California. She regularly teaches courses in ancient tragedy, ancient comedy, and classical mythology, and in 2020, she published a book entitled “Gender and Sexuality in Juvenal’s Rome: Satire 2 and Satire 6,” a text that offers translation and commentary on two of Juvenal’s most provocative poems.

Chiara is also interested in classical reception, and this interest led her to create a website called Animated Antiquity, a repository of cartoon representations of the classical world. Clips are organized by decade, going all the way back to a stop-motion animated version of Aesop’s “The Grasshopper and the Ant” fable from 1913.

Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney

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