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Will Brockliss first encountered Perseus beheading the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa when he was in second grade. The story sparked a lifelong passion for the ancient world in the associate professor of classics, who received the Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award in 2020. Brockliss teaches students in the Odyssey Project (a UW-Madison program designed to offer low-income adult learners the chance to earn college credit) and wows his students with the horrors of ancient Greek and Roman mythology.