Ted Somerville, Ph.D., Harvard University                             

Main Research Interest: Ted Somerville is a post-doc in the Department of Classical Studies, having earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in May of 2007. His research interests include Greek and Roman poetry, historical linguistics, genre, allusion, poetics, and metrics. He is in the process of turning his dissertation 'Ovid and the Tradition of Exile Elegy' into a book, and writing articles principally on the minor Latin poets. His recent publications include "The Literary Merit of the New Gallus" (/Classical Philology /104.1 (2009)) and "The Pleonasm of the New Gallus, and the Gallus of the Monobiblos" (/Mnemosyne/ 62.2 (2009)).

Office: RH 231
Phone: 713-348-2483
Email: Ted.Somerville@rice.edu

Office Hours - By Appointment

Spring 2013 Courses:
CLAS 207 - Love Life in Class Antiquity
GREE 102 - Intro to Greek II
GREE 307 - Advanced Greek: Prose

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