David Davies Ph.D.

David Davies received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is a scholar on the classical traditions of English and Greek literature. 

• 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

Publications

• "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.