Antonia Syson
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Antonia Syson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 February 1973 |
| Died | 25 March 2018 (aged 45) Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Reading for the Novel: Knowledge, Persuasion, and the Divine Narratives of Vergil’s Aeneid |
Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (23 February 1973 – 25 March 2018) was a British-American classical scholar specialising in the study of Virgil's Aeneid.[1][2]
Antonia was born in Botswana whilst her father, John, was private secretary to the president, Sir Seretse Khama and her mother, Lucy, was undertaking research on rural development for the United Nations. She had a brother Luke and a sister Lydia, a writer.[2] The Sysons returned to the UK in 1973, where Antonia attended Hungerford primary school and Camden School for Girls. In 1991 Antonia went to Magdalen College, Oxford to study Classics under Oliver Taplin before, in 1995, taking her PhD in classics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] Antonia credited her Latin teachers at Camden and Birmingham for helping her develop her lasting connection to Classics.
