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N. Gregson Davis

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Humanities
Classical Studies
Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708-0103
233G Allen Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours W 4:30 to 5:30 PM
Office Location Allen 233E  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Journal of a Homecoming (reading of excerpts from new English Translation) · October 31, 2013 Lecture Yale University
Post-Colonial Receptions of the Odyssey in Art and Poetry: Romare Bearden and Derek Walcott. · April 25, 2013 Lecture Vassar College
“Defining the ethos of the speaker: Horace’s adaptations of a Pindaric rhetorical strategy.” · April 19, 2013 Lecture Moscow State University for the Humanities
“Amores solliciti: the Epicurean framing of erotic experience in Vergil: Bucolics 1 · April 12, 2013 Lecture University of Virginia
Negritude as Performance: The Parade of Black Masks in Aimé Césaire's Journal of Homecoming. · March 1, 2009 Lecture Florida International University Graduate Colloquium Lecture

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Il programma filosofico della prima egloga (Bucoliche I) di Virgilio. University of Bologna · 2009 Lecture

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Framing a Dialogue on vicissitude (Vergil Eclogues 1). · 2009 Lecture New York University

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Lectures on Vergil's Aeneid at Bard College and Purdue University · 2009 Lecture

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Service to the Profession


Editorial Board Member - Comparative Literature (Journal) · 1991 - 2010 Editorial Activities

Papers Refereed ; Reader of articles submitted for publication in the journal