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William W. Batstone

William W. Batstone

William W. Batstone

Professor Emeritus

batstone.1@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Lyric
  • Rhetoric and literary criticism
  • Roman Literature

Education

  • Ph.D. California-Berkeley 1984
  • M.A. California-Berkeley 1976
  • B.A. Harvard 1974

Books:

Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories
     
Caesar's Civil War
     

 

 Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry: An Anthology of New Translations

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)

Full CV

To listen to (download) Prof. Batstone's talk, "Caesar Constructing Caesar", click here.

 

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