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Classics
Remy Woobin Lee is an avid scholar of Classics, embarking on his 8th year of Latin and 2nd year of Ancient Greek. With an affinity for poetry and anthropology, he is especially fascinated by the mythology, literature, and culture of classical antiquity.
He is pursuing the Classics Diploma at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, where he is the recipient of the Richard Bacon Latin Prize for prep student and the Latin Prize for upper mid student at Hotchkiss, as well as Summa Cum Laude from the 2024 National Latin Exam.
He is the author of a published book translated from Latin and also the author of a comparative analysis paper of Greek and Jeju myths.
In the summer of 2025, he led an independent archival research into the Greek polymath Archimedes as part of the inaugural cohort to the School’s Euclid to Einstein Scholars Program.
Selected Works contains Remy Woobin Lee’s English translations of Catullus’ select poems and Cicero’s first Catilinarian Oration. Woven through this volume is a conversation of two great forces at odds—the traditional, collective, and rational of Cicero’s In Catilinam, and the progressive, personal, and humanistic of Catullus’ verses—that marked the heightening impetus for change in the last decades of the Roman Republic.
I dedicated much time to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections, where I examined 16th- through 18th-century compilations of Archimedes’ works scribed in Ancient Greek and Latin. Analyzing authentically preserved forms of Archimedes’ diagrams and writings first-hand in conjunction with published modern English compilations yielded a fascinating experience of archival study.
This paper examines the Western vs Eastern cultural notions of gender roles in romantic relationships by contrasting how Odysseus, the Greco-Roman hero, and Jacheongbi, the heroine of Jeju Myth, navigate struggles in love.
Odysseus’s passivity towards Penelope reflects the patriarchal marriage dynamic of Ancient Greece in which women are expected to provide conciliation and pleasure for men. On the other hand, Jacheongbi’s proactivity in pursuing Moondoryeong exemplifies the notion of female agency in Jeju culture that enables women to confront hardships in love despite patriarchal structures that attempt to disempower them.
Jacheongbi’s proactivity, epitomical of the Jeju heroine, draws parallels of various degrees to some Greco-Roman counterparts, such as Medea and Psyche.
