College of Humanities People
William Batstone, Professor
Department of Greek and Latin: http://greekandlatin.osu.edu/
Office Information
414G University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: batstone.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-2673
Fax: 614-292-7835
414G University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: batstone.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-2673
Fax: 614-292-7835
Education:
Ph.D. California-Berkeley 1984 · M.A. California-Berkeley 1976 · B.A. Harvard 1974
General Background:
Interests: Latin literature · Rhetoric and literary criticism · Lyric
Books:
Editor (with Diane J. Raynor), Latin lyric and elegiac poetry: an anthology of new translations (New York, 1995)
Editor (with Garth Tissol) Defining Gender and Genre in Latin Literature (Peter Lang, 2005)
Caesar's Civil War: A literary introduction (with Cynthia Damon) (forthcoming: Oxford, 2005)
Recent Articles:
"Catullus and Bakhtin: the Problems of a Dialogic Lyric" in Bakhtin and the Classics ed. R. Bracht Branham (Evanston, Ill., 2002)
"Plautine Farce and Plautine Freedom: An essay on the value of metatheatre" in Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature (Batstone and Tissol, edd) 2005 "
"Cicero's construction of consular ethos in the First Catilinarian,"Transactions of the American Philological Association 124 (1994), 221-266
"Virgilian didaxis: value and meaning in the Georgics in The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, ed. Charles A. Martindale (Cambridge 1997)
Classics
Roman Literature
Critical Theory
