Joe is a fourth year Ph.D. student from St. Charles, MO, just north of St. Louis. Joe fell in love with Greek mythology at age six when he read D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. That weekend Joe confused his mom by telling her that laundry was a Sisyphean task. He made sure he went to a high school that taught Latin and pursued a degree in Classics at Creighton University in Omaha, NE. While at Creighton, he attended the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, a study abroad program based in Rome, in Spring 2016. After working for two years immediately after undergrad, Joe returned to Classics, enrolling in the graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.