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Emma Ianni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

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Classical and Medieval Studies

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207-786-6160 eianni@bates.edu

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2025

Elementary Ancient Greek II

GRK 102

A continuation of GRK 101. Prerequisite(s): GRK 101.

Constructing Gender and Imperialism in Rome

LATN 201

Imperial power in the Roman Empire, and after, was rooted in patriarchy and worked by defining and perpetuating acceptable identities for men and women. With an emphasis on the treatment of women and the operation of power, we study how gender was imagined and constructed in readings such as Vergilâ…

Constructing Gender and Imperialism in Rome

LATN 301

This course covers the same material as LATN 201 but is designed for students who have completed two or more years of college-level Latin. May be repeated with permission of the instructor.

Winter Semester 2026

Movie Theaters of War

CMS 133 / RFSS 133

In the Iliad, Homer transformed the Trojan War into a spectacle. Today, the popularity of war movies reveals how deeply these ancient notions of war as spectacle have shaped our understanding of armed conflict. This course analyzes war films through the lens of pre-modern treatments of war as specta…