Kathleen Coleman

Kathleen Coleman

Harvard University

Latin Literature & Roman Social History

kcoleman1953@ias.edu

Statement: I am writing a book about a Roman child, the son of two former slaves, who died aged eleven years, five months, and twelve days, having delivered a 43-line extempore poem in Greek at an international competition in Rome in the presence of the emperor Domitian in AD 94.

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