Classics

Patricia Craig Aeschliman

Assistant Professor of Classics

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Education

B.A., University of Dallas, 2012
M.A., The Catholic University of America, 2016
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 2022

Research Interests

Senecan Drama
Stoic Philosophy
Augustan and Early Imperial Poetry
Neo-Latin Comedy
Greek Tragedy
Plato
Spoken Latin and Ancient Greek
Language Pedagogy

Immersive Latin Programs

Dr. Aeschliman organizes annual programs in immersive Latin, both at Hillsdale College (Palaestra Michiganensis) and at Christendom College in Front Royal, VA (Palaestra Virginiensis). For more information, you may email her or visit the website linked above (palaestralatina.com).

Representative Lectures

Will the Real Marcus Seneca Please Stand Up? (Hillsdale College, Nov. 14, 2025)
De Didone Senecae (delivered in Latin; Christendom College, June 25, 2025)
How to Teach Yourself to Speak Latin (with Aloysius Aeschliman; K-12 Summer Conference in Hillsdale, June 17, 2024)
Ecloga Vergilii Quarta et Nativitas Christi (delivered in Latin; Paideia Institute, New York, Feb. 19, 2023)
Seneca’s Critique of Exemplarity in his Prose and Poetry (International Seneca Conference, Lisbon, Oct 20, 2022)
Aeneas, Hercules, and Augustus: the Ambiguous Heroes of Vergil’s Aeneid (SCS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Jan. 3, 2020)