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N. Gregson Davis

N. Gregson Davis

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Humanities
Classical Studies
gdav@duke.edu
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  

Scholarly Works - Books

Afterlives of the garden: Receptions of Epicurean thought in the early empire and late antiquity

Book · December 18, 2023 The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor ... Full text Cite

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

EPICURUS IN ROME: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age

Book · January 1, 2023 The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman Republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influen ... Full text Cite

Euphrosyne: Studies in ancient philosophy, history, and literature

Book · March 9, 2020 This book collects essays and other contributions by colleagues, students, and friends of the late Diskin Clay, reflecting the unusually broad range of his interests. Clay's work in ancient philosophy, and particularly in Epicurus and Epicureanism and in P ... Full text 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

Book · 1997 Cite