James O'Hara (Latinist)

James O'Hara (born 1959)[1] is an American scholar of Latin literature. He is the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.[2]

Books
  • Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid (Princeton University Press, 1990)[3]
  • True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (University of Michigan Press, 1996)[4]
  • Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge University Press, 2007)[5][6]

References
  1. "O'Hara, James J., 1959-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  2. "James J. O'Hara | Department of Classics".
  3. Schiesaro, Alessandro (July 1, 1993). "Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's "Aeneid". James J. O'Hara". Classical Philology. 88 (3): 258–265. doi:10.1086/367368 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
  4. Bleisch, Pamela R (December 28, 1998). "True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (review)". American Journal of Philology. 119 (2): 300–303. doi:10.1353/ajp.1998.0020 – via Project MUSE.
  5. "Review of: Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan. "Roman Literature and Its Contexts"". Bryn Mawr Classical Review – via Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  6. Grebe, Sabine (December 28, 2008). "Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (review)". Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada. 8 (3): 473–483. doi:10.1353/mou.0.0088 – via Project MUSE.


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