Thalia Alexandra Pandiri

My transactions with Thalia were only by numerous phone calls while she sent wonderful articles to a Prentice Hall anthology of Classics. She was always pleasant, chatting up our shared NYC background, punctual with flawless copy that never needed my editing. Her voice was warm, loving and deeply appreciated. She was an editor's dream. Requiescat in pace.

Thalia was a true scholar, a deep scholar, and a scholar with integrity. Institutions like Smith College are built on the work of such people. She insisted on high standards and profound attention to detail in the editing of METAMORPHOSES, The Five College Journal of Literary Translation, not sparing herself in maintaining those standards, but never without generosity and a sense of humor. She was a devoted mother and friend. She is irreplaceable.

I met Thalia Pandiri when I was briefly teaching as temporary faculty at Smith in the early eighties, and I learned this sad and unexpected news of her premature death just moments ago in the customs line at Toronto-Pearson, from a UMass English professor, as we were returning from the MLA meeting. She inspired me to take intensive Greek at UT after I got tenure there, and was a luminous presence in Northampton that I remember vividly forty years on. y deepest condolences to her much-loved...

I was so very sorry to hear of Thalia's passing; she was my very first professor and mentor when I arrived at Smith as a 17 year old student, and went on to be a role model, colleague, and friend when I returned as a faculty member a decade later. I always admired her honesty, courageousness, and steadfastness when it came to raising necessary alarms or taking an ethical stance as a faculty member, and she continues to inspire the same in others, including me. May she rest in power and...

I have such fond memories of Thalia and our time in together in Italy in 2002-2003. She initially came off as gruff but was such a softie. A wonderful person, through and through. I am so happy that our lives crossed in the way they did. She will be dearly missed!!

From Cathy Castner, '71- Thalia Pandiri was a wonderful teacher of ancient Greek. Not only was she brilliant, but she had a way of supporting and encouraging her students with kindness. This combination of pedagogical attributes kept us going in a difficult subject matter, engaged, interested, and even enjoying beginning ancient Greek.

Thalia was my dear friend when I was a student at Smith and a helper at home when Dimitri and Lydia Miranda were little. I have so many happy memories of gathering around the dining room table, talking with Thalia and with, Lydia, her mom, with Bill, and pondering all sorts of philosophical questions with Dimitri. The whole family became very much a second family for me when I was an unformed undergrad, and we stayed in touch over the decades. Thalia's death is a heartbreak. Sending all my...

Carissima Thalia o Mamma Greca come ti piaceva che io ti chiamassi...sono incredula, addolorata, infinitamente triste per il modo in cui te ne sei andata. Non so come poterti ringraziare di tutto quello che hai fatto per me e di tutto quello che mi hai insegnato. Non dimenticherò mai tutti i momenti passati insieme e il tuo carattere che ho imparato ad apprezzare nei lunghi anni di lavoro insieme e di grande amicizia. Vola libera cara Thalia, e se vedi il nostro caro Alfi, divertitevi...

An extraordinary member of our Classics community-and a priceless asset to Smith College!