Samuel Ortencio Flores is the Derrick K. Gondwe Visiting Scholar and Visiting Instructor of Classics at Gettysburg College. He is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Classics, where he also earned his M.A. in classics in 2008. He earned his B.A. with a double major in Latin and English with minors in Greek, philosophy, and creative writing at John Carroll University in 2007. His teaching and research interests include ancient philosophy, Greek history, and Athenian drama. His dissertation is entitled The Roles of Solon in Plato’s Dialogues, and it is a study of Plato’s use of Solon as a powerful rhetorical figure vis-à- vis the establishment of the practice of philosophy in fourth-century Athens. It studies Plato’s dialogues in their literary context amidst Greek poetry, historiography, and oratory.