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 

Fall 2009 Courses
GREE 201 - Intermediate Greek I: Prose 
LATI 101/MDST 101- Elementary Latin I 
LATI 201/MDST 211- Intermediate Latin I: Prose 
 
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