What is one thing about Classical Studies that you wish your students understood? It would give me much pleasure if my students would immediately understand the relevance of the works that we read in a required Classics in translation course and if my language students could see the beauty in the grammar of Latin and Greek. To which classical figure do you most relate and why? I most relate to Antigone because I would like to believe that I would be equally courageous in the event that I needed to defy (through civil disobedience) a secular authority for a higher principle, ready to accept the consequences. Who has been the most important mentor in your career? I have had a number of mentors on my journey, but the person whose teaching inspired me to go into Classics stands out in my mind most clearly, Joan Plotnick-Salvo. I wanted to be able to teach as effectively as she did to encourage students to love the ancient Greek and Roman works (even if not to become majors in the field). What is the best advice you have ever received? In terms of my academic life, the best advice I received was in my first year of graduate school at Johns Hopkins. One of our professors told us "newbies" that we would probably forget many, if not most, of the facts that we learned in graduate school, but we would know where and how to find them when we needed them. What book are you currently reading? In my light reading, I am a mystery buff and at present am reading one entitled Broken Dishes by Earlene Fowler. What would have you become if not a Classicist? If I were not a Classicist, I would have liked to be an editor. When did you know you wanted to be a Classicist? While I always was fascinated by Greek and Roman mythology, I was certain that I wanted to be a Classicist after taking a required (by all students) course in Classics at Brooklyn College of the CUNY

If you had been born a boy/girl, what would your name have been? I was told that if I had been a boy, my name would have been Mark. Dr Marny Lemmel is a Latin instructor at Ohio Dominican University, Wittenberg University and Tree of Life Christian Academy. She is the winner of AbleMedia's Bronze Chalice award for her submission of Vestigia. What book has been most influential to your career? Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales. How would you like to be remembered? I would most like to be remembered as a loving and caring person, who always would make the effort to look below the surface. When and where in the Classical World would you have liked to live? I would have liked to live in mid-5th century BC Athens to have been able to see the original productions of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. What law, rule, event, or custom from Classical times would you like to see reincarnated today? For the life of me, I cannot remember the source, but the ancient Greek practice that particularly intrigued me was, in the event that something was missing for a religious holiday/ceremony, the repeat of the same date of the day before the actual holiday began until the item(s) arrived. I used to think how lovely students would find this practice in school: if they weren't quite ready for a final exam on January 10th, they could just have a week of January 9ths. If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from the world outside of Classical Studies would you like to have dinner? I would love to have dinner with Corrie Ten Boom, the author of The Hiding Place (among other works). I should like to be able to ask her for more of the details regarding her work and her feelings as she and her family hid many Jews in the Netherlands during World War 2 and themselves were arrested and sent to concentration camps.