To which classical figure do you most relate and why? Vergil and Thucydides - their perfectionism is inspiring What book has been most influential to your career? The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault - I read this book in Greece during a summer of travel there and realized why I wanted to study classical cultures and languages. What would have you become if not a Classicist? A graphic designer. Or what about an Antiques Roadshow appraiser? Or maybe a CSI. So many choices when you have a classical education! What book are you currently reading? The RVer's Bible. What literary character do you most resemble? Turnus. What five albums would you want to have with you if you were stranded on a desert island? Rolling Stone just listed their top 500 so this is a doozy - in the end, I don't think I could choose just five. 1. Kim Richey's Bittersweet, 2. Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends, 3. Bob Dylan (I'd have to take at least five of his alone), 4. Old 97s' Too Far to Care, 5. Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville. No Beatles' album? Yeah, no way I could choose just five! If you could travel back to ancient Rome, what five items would you take with you from the present? This sounds like a question the producers of Survivor ask their players - toothpaste, toilet paper, chocolate, a laptop, and my fiance - I couldn't enjoy such an exciting trip without him.

Nathalie Roy is a Latin teacher at Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge, LA. She is the winner of AbleMedia's Gold, Silver, and Bronze Chalice awards for her submission of Ad Astra: Using Latin in a Cross-curricular Science Program. If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from Classical times would you want to deliver your eulogy? Horace's sarcasm would capture me perfectly. How would you like to be remembered? As a good teacher. When and where in the Classical World would you have liked to live? Rome during the Golden Age. What is the most interesting thing in your car right now? A 38-caliber Colt pistol. If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from the world outside of Classical Studies would you like to have dinner? Maybe John Lennon and Neil Armstrong could have tea with me and my grandfathers. What law, rule, event, or custom from Classical times would you like to see reincarnated today? The idea that education should not be free. If you had been born a boy/girl, what would your name have been? Melanie - my mom loved this folk singer. I'm not sure why she changed her mind.