Antonios Augoustakis

Antony Augoustakis is Associate professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2010) and Plautus’ Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has edited the Brill Companion to Silius Italicus (Leiden, 2010), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2013), and Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (Leiden, 2014).

He has co–edited with Carole Newlands Statius’ Siluae and the Poetics of Intimacy (Arethusa, 2007) and with Ariana Traill the Blackwell Companion to Terence (Malden, Mass., 2013).

He is working on a commentary on Statius’ Thebaid Book 8 (Oxford) and the Oxford Readings in Flavian Epic, co–edited with Helen Lovatt (Oxford).