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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 Publications


POLYHYMNIA: THE RHETORIC OF HORATION LYRIC DISCOURSE

Book · January 1, 2023 Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical st ... Cite

Euphrosyne

Journal Article Beiträge zur Altertumskunde · 2020 Cite

Introduction

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · July 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Journal of a Homecoming

Chapter · 2016 English translation ... Cite

Aimé Césaire

Chapter · 2015 Cite

A flag of one’s own? Aimé Césaire between poetry and politics

Internet Publication · June 26, 2013 Blog post ... Link to item Cite

Virgil's eclogues

Book · December 1, 2010 Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome ... Cite

A Companion to Horace

Book · February 8, 2010 Product Information About The Product A Companion to Horace features a collection of commissioned interpretive essays by leading scholars in the field of Latin literature covering the entire generic range of works produced by Horace. • Features original es ... Full text Cite

Aimé Césaire

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Derek Walcott

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Wine and the Symposium

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4"

Journal Article "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici." · August 2002 Cite

Ut pictura poesis: A Testament

Journal Article Agenda · 2002 Special Issue on Derek Walcott ... Cite

Aimé Césaire

Book · 1997 Cite

The poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual perspectives

Journal Article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1997 Cite

The figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric

Journal Article Hellas · 1996 Special issue in honor of Wesley Trimpi ... Cite

Cupid at the Ivory Gates: Ausonius as a reader of Vergil

Journal Article Colby Quarterly · 1994 Cite

From a Sabine Jar by L. Edmunds (Chapel Hill 1992)

Book Review Classical Journal · 1993 Cite

Lyric worlds: Old and New under the sun

Other Arts and Sciences Newsletter · 1991 Cite

Ingenii cumba?: literary aporia and the rhetoric of Horace's O navis referent (C.1.14)

Journal Article Rheinisches Museum für Philologie · 1989 Cite

Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22)

Journal Article Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica: atti di convegni · 1987 Cite

Metaformations by F. Ahl (Ithaca 1985)

Book Review Classical Philology · 1985 Cite

The Disavowal of the Grand (Recusatio) in two poems by Wallace Stevens

Journal Article Pacific Coast Philology · 1982 Cite

The mind at the end of the palm

Other The Stanford Magazine · 1982 Cite

The Art of the Aeneid by W.S. Anderson

Book Review Comparative Literature · 1972 Cite