Donna Zuckerberg is the founding editor of Eidolon. She received her Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 2014 for her dissertation on ancient Greek tragedy and comedy. Her writing has appeared in academic journals and in online publications such as Jezebel and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She served as the Paideia Institute's Director of Communications until 2013, and now teaches for Telepaideia and Stanford Continuing Studies.
Alex is a PhD student in Classics at Princeton University. A native of Houston, Texas, he got his BA in Classics from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is interested in Greek literature of all periods, but especially its flowering in the later Roman Empire, both “pagan” and Christian. His dissertation is on a greek philosopher poet bishop from Libya, Synesius of Cyrene (ca. 370-414 AD). Alex has been teaching at LGiG since its inception and is an active participant and organizer of the Ancient Greek table at Princeton.
Susan Thorton Rasmussen graduated from Wyoming Catholic College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Latin, and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Classics through the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She enjoys teaching Latin, and has participated in and led many Latin immersion programs and events, including several outdoor trips, week-long residential intensives, shorter workshops, and even a Latin murder mystery party. Susan is an experienced backpacker and thoroughly enjoys hiking, kayaking, and cross-country skiing, and she has served as an archery coach while teaching high school in Washington. She and her husband live in Wyoming.
Peter Knuffke holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College, and a licentiate and doctorate in Christian and Classical Letters from the Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. In the course of his studies, he spent two years in Greece doing research in Eastern Christian theology. In addition to Latin and Greek, he is very interested in the thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and the tradition of thought to which they belong.
Ilias Kolokouris is a Ph.D. student in Classics at the University of Athens. He holds a ptychion in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, and a Master's Degree in teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language. His thesis was on the tragic elements found in Aristophanes’ Acharnians. Ilias has taught for the University of Missouri Creative Writing Seminars on Serifos, for the Modern Greek Language Centre of the University of Athens and for Paideia’s Living Greek in Greece program. He is currently interested in the reception of ancient Greek literature within modern Greek poetry.
Jonathan had the distinct privilege of learning Latin at the feet and mensa of the Venerable David Morgan. Thence he formed friendships with Latin and Greek-speakers the world over, and he took his love for classical languages to Catholic seminaries in Germany, Italy, France, and the United States. He completed course work for the S.T.D. with a specialization in Patristics at the Institutum Patristicum "Augustinianum" in Rome, Italy. He lives in urbe with his wife and children and [ill]ic mane[bunt] optime. Jonathan's greatest pleasure is to sing Liturgical Music in Latin, Greek, and Church Slavonic.