N. Gregson G. Davis, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies and Faculty of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	243A Allen Bldg. Box 90103
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3244
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Education:

PhD in Comparative Literature (Latin, Greek, French),	University of California at Berkeley	1969
AB in Classics, Magna cum laude	Harvard College	1960

Research Interests:

Greek and Latin Poetry; Francophone Caribbean Literature; rhetoric; semiotics; pragmatics

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Aimé Césaire (1997), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge.)
2. Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (1991), University of California Press (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford.)
3. Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire (1984), Stanford University Press (Stanford, Ca..)
4. The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Instrumentum Litterarum, vol. 2 (1983), Edizioni dell' Ateneo (Rome, Italy.)
5. Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4", "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici.", vol. 48 (August, 2002), pp. 111-143
6. Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22), Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica, vol. 27.3 (1987), pp. 67-78 (Why Horace: A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W.S. Anderson, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, Ill, 1999, 51-62.)
7. 'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros., South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 96.2 (1997), pp. 321-33