Shannon Fetzner

Shannon Fetzner, MAE history candidate, had a paper accepted for publication in the classics undergraduate research journal Philomathes, under the guidance of Amy Norgard, associate professor of classics. Fetzner’s paper, entitled “Friendship in Horace’s Satires,” analyzes uses of friendship words – amicus and amicitia – by the Roman author Horace as conveying a deep sense of doubt about friendship as a means for Epicurean contentment, and doubts about Rome’s social structure and stability as Augustus consolidates power after a period of successive civil wars. Written in an undergraduate Latin class, Fetzner paper will be published in 2022.