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Fragment of a marble Sarcophagus
ca. 230-240 ACE
Duke Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Gregson G. Davis
 
 
Gregson G. Davis

Title: Dean of Humanities, Professor and Literature and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
Office Location: 233G Allen
Office Phone: 919-684-3244
Email Address: gdav@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/web/classics/~gdav
Typical Courses Taught:

  • Lat90, Advanced intermediate latin Synopsis
  • Lat301, Sem latin lit: hymns
  • Lat91, Trans to adv latin
  • Clst 196s, Jr/sr seminar: formal conventions of greek and latin lyric Synopsis
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
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1.  Aimé Césaire.  Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Cambridge)
  2.  Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.  University of California Press, 1991. (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
  3.  Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire.  Stanford University Press, 1984. (Stanford, Ca.)
  4.  The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Edizioni dell' Ateneo, January, 1983. (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): 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): 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): 321-33.
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