Anne H. Groton
Anne H. Groton, Professor of Classics
Chair, Department of Classics
Director, Ancient Studies & Medieval Studies Programs
(has taught at St. Olaf since 1981)
E-mail: groton@stolaf.edu
Office: Tomson Hall 367
Office telephone: 507-786-3387
A.B. (Latin & Greek), Wellesley College, 1976
M.A., Ph.D. (Classical Studies), University of Michigan, 1977, 1982
Anne Groton is the author of several articles on ancient drama as well as two textbooks, 38 Latin Stories (co-authored with James May) and From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek. She is at work on a revised edition of her Greek textbook and may someday have time to finish her commentary on Aspis ("The Shield"), a Greek comedy by Menander. Every other year she directs a student production of a Roman comedy by Plautus, performed in a musical mixture of Latin and English.
Groton has held an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and spent a year as an Associate Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. In 1995 she received the American Philological Association's Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics. She is Past President of the Classical Association of Minnesota and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society. Her term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, currently headquartered at St. Olaf College, began in 2004.
In her spare time Groton bikes, plays the piano, composes music and poetry, and sings in a Renaissance chamber choir. Besides being able to get lost virtually anywhere, her greatest claim to fame is never having learned to parallel park. Occasionally she escapes from Northfield to visit her relatives (three of whom are pictured with her in the photo) in far-off Philadelphia.
Courses in 2011-2012: Semester I = Greek 111A (Beginning Greek I), Latin 111B (Beginning Latin I), Latin 373 (Lucretius & Latin Poetry); Interim = Classics 251 (Classical Studies in Greece); Semester II = Latin 377 (Latin Satire)
