David O. Davies, Ph.D.

• Milton
• Classical Traditions in English Literature
• Philosophical Foundations of Literary Criticism
• Classical Tragedy & Comedy
• Classical Epic
• Roman Lyric Poetry
• Founder and Director of Latin in Rome (1997-2006)

• BA (Philosophy and History): University of Rochester
• MA (Classics): University of Rochester
• PhD (Classics): State University of New York at Buffalo

English:
ENG 1301: Literary Tradition I

ENG 1302: Literary Tradition II

ENG 2311: Literary Tradition III

ENG 2312: Literary Tradition IV

ENG 3326: Early Modern Literature

ENG 4360: American Literature

ENG 4362: Twentieth Century Literature

ENG 6316: Pastoral Poetry

ENG 6333: Milton

ENG 6344: Tragedy & Comedy

ENG 6360: Literary Criticism and Theory

IPS 8341: Dante & Milton (with John Alvis)

Classics:

CLG 1301: Elementary Greek I

CLG 1302: Elementary Greek II

CLG 2311: Intermediate Greek

CLG 3325: Historians: Xenophon

CLL 2312: Intermediate Latin II (Catullus & Vergil)

CLL 3332/5301:  Cicero De Officiis

CLL 3334: St. Augustine: The Commentaries on Genesis

• "Eve's First Words: Ovidian Wit, Platonic Self-Knowledge & Milton's Translations in Paradise Lost 4.440-491".Classical and Modern Literature Vol. 27 No. 2 (Winter 2008).
• "Becoming Dear: A Gift of Nature and the Work Called Providence in the First Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost" (forthcoming).
• Davies, D.O. et al. Agnellus of Ravenna, Arethusa Monograph VIII, SUNY at Buffalo, (1981).
• Davies, D.O. and Dowling, P. "Shrewd books, with dangerous Frontispieces': Areopagitica's Motto," Milton Quarterly Vol. 20, no. 2 (May 1986).

• "Michael Davis' The Poetry of Philosophy: Aristotle's Poetics,"  Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham : 1992, in the Review of Politics.