To which classical figure do you most relate and why? Juvenal, because of his attack on the absurdities of contemporary society in his Satires. American society is also a rich source of absurdities. Who has been the most important mentor in your career? I cannot name one person, because many of my teachers and colleagues personally and through their scholarship have taught me much. What book has been most influential to your career? It's hard to single out one book, but Victor Poschl's Die Dichtkunst Virgils comes very close. What trend in Classical Studies do you see as positive? The willingness to apply the findings of other disciplines to ancient literature and culture. What trend in Classical Studies do you see as negative? The dogmatic application of theory from other disciplines as if it were divine revelation. What book are you currently reading? John Boardman's Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period.

Roger Dunkle is a professor of Classics at Brooklyn College in New York. Prof. Dunkle is the winner of AbleMedia's Gold, Silver, and Bronze Chalice awards for his submission of the Netshot The Classical Origins of the Western World. How would you like to be remembered? As a good Latin teacher. If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from the world outside of Classical Studies would you like to have dinner? Frank Sinatra. What is one thing about Classical Studies you wished your students understood? That moral standards of the ancients that differ from our own do not automatically make them morally inferior to us. What would have you become if not a Classicist? A professional pianist (which I was before my career in classics). If you had been born a boy/girl, what would your name have been? Joanne. When and where in the Classical World would you have liked to live? Faesulae (modern Fiesole). If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from Classical Times would you want to deliver your eulogy? Pericles. What five albums would you want to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island? Bach, Cello Suites Bach, Partitas Mozart, Piano Sonatas Haydn String Quartets Prokofiev, Violin Sonata