JOSEPH FARRELL

Professor of Classical Studies
Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities
Chair, Classical Studies Department and Graduate Group

Education

Ph.D. (Classics) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983
A.B. (Classics) Bowdoin College, 1977

Research and teaching interests

Latin literature, especially poetry
Culture of the Republican and Augustan periods

Recent courses

(undergraduate) Cicero, De re publica; Ovid, Metamorphoses and Fasti
(graduate) Ovid, exile poetry; Vergil, Aeneid; Early Roman Epic

Major publications

Latin Language and Latin Culture (2001)
Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991)

Work in progress

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition (co-editor with Michael Putnam)
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic (co-editor with Damien Nelis)
Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent (Martin Classical Lectures, 2008)

Contact

Office: Cohen 291
Phone: (215) 898-7425
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