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Note: I retired as Jan. 1, 2025.
Jim O’Hara pronouns: he/him
George L. Paddison Professor of Latin, emeritus
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Past President, Vergilian Society (central two pics are Symposium Cumanum 2017, 2019)
I have a desk in the emeritus office of the second floor of Murphey Hall
phone? send me an email
fax: (919) 962-4036
Classics Dept. Main Office phone: (919) 962-7191
Electronic mail: jimohara -at- unc.edu
Classics Department Home Page: http://classics.unc.edu
Personal Home Page (this page): https://jimohara.web.unc.edu
My curriculum vitae (with some links to journals and publishers)
My page on the department website:
http://classics.unc.edu/people/faculty-2/james-j-ohara/
My page on academia.edu (with some downloadable publications):
http://unc.academia.edu/JimOHara
Mailing address:
James J. O’Hara
Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 212 Murphey Hall
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145
Courses FA 2023
LATN 901: Seminar: Catullus
LATN 221: Vergil: Aeneid
Courses SP 2024
LATN 333: Catullus
CLAS 55: Three Greek and Roman Epics
Office Hours SP 2023
Mon- Wed 11-11:45 or by appt. or polite drop-in
Courses 2009-2021
Courses FA 2022
CLAS 122: The Romans
LATN 774: Vergil: Aeneid
Courses SP 2023
LATN 222: Cicero
LATN 353: Satire: Juvenal
O’Hara Frascati handout June 2024
O’Hara Cumanum Powerpoint as pdf June 2024
Things you can buy!:
- True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (Ann Arbor 1996).
Expanded paperback edition with new Introduction (2017), available from Michigan or from Amazon.
https://www.press.umich.edu/9371709/true_names
https://www.amazon.com/True-Names-Alexandrian-Tradition-Etymological/dp/0472036874/ref=la_B001HCWAUS_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488313755&sr=1-1
- Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge 2007)
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521646421
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521646421/sr=8-1/qid=1156341213/ref=sr_1_1/103-4899663-7351806?ie=UTF8 - Commentary with vocab.: Vergil: Aeneid: Book 4 (for intermediate college classes or the equivalent)
http://focusbookstore.com/aeneidbook4.aspx - Commentary with vocab.: Vergil: Aeneid: Book 8 (for intermediate college classes or the equivalent)
https://www.hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcoming/aeneid-8 - Commentary on 1-6 by a team including me (no vocab in back; for advanced college classes)
http://focusbookstore.com/aeneid16.aspx - Commentaries on 7-12 underway
- Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid (Princeton 1990) (now available again, paperback on-demand!)
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4585.html
My own links pages (not updated often):
- Homer, Iliad and Odyssey (partially updated 2021, many old links)
- Vergil Links (new SP 2002, slightly updated since)
- Lucretius Links (updated F2010)
- Epic Links
- Ovid Links
- Catullus Links (2017)
- Catullus & Cicero Links
- Roman Novel Links
- Euripides
- Sophocles (new SP 2002, slightly updated since); Sophocles Intro ppt
- Augustus and the Roman Revolution(1999) Augustus Links(2001), slightly updated since
- Pliny-Tacitus Links
- how papyrus is made
- pic of papyrus plant (and Marion!)
Some handouts:
- Some Writing Tips
- Vergil’s Dactylic Hexameter
- Practical Rules for Scansion of Hexameter Without Misery
Some other useful links:
- “Classics and the Big Rock,” remarks on the value of Classics at UNC Classics Department Commencement Ceremony
- Summer Classics website with info. on summer Introductory Greek/Latin courses and other classics courses (a page I helped invent)
- Arts & Letters Daily, from the The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar at perseus.tufts.edu
- The Society for Classical Studies (SCS, formerly called American Philological Association or APA) including directory of members, and recent job listings
- Home page of the Classics List ; web archives
- Home page of the Classics Job Wiki, with some real info and some rumors and anonymous nonsense
- ForumRomanum Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum texts in Latin and sometimes in English
- Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World Bill Thayer’s annotated collection of web materials and sites
- The Yastrzemski of Prima Porta (found only here! with exciting 2013 update!)
- rec.music.artists.springsteen
- Our enviable Chapel Hill weather
- List of U.S. Classics Departments, from Berlin
- FordhamAncHistTexts —STOA —Diotima —BMCR — WritingResources — www.theory.org — HopkinsLitCritGuide — OEDatUNC — CitationGuides — UMIdissertations— babelfish translate PanteliaE-Resources—publishers — Class&MedArchMich—O’Donnell — curculio — rogueclassicism blogographos — bookfinder—adallbooksearch —alibris —Schoenhof’s Books
- Presses: CambUP—OUP—UMichP— HarvUP—Focus-Pullins—Oxbow
- A Dido page ; “Random Homer Quote” ; Evander; Aeneas (who has a brother Achilles) ; The Mighty Hercules
- President Bush on the Eclogues and Georgics
- The Fictional Rome Home Page
Some Classics majors: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Classics major at Holy Cross; Chaim Bloom, former Chief Baseball Officer, Boston Red Sox, Latin Classics major at Yale; my student Classics major Henry Ross ’08 with Ruth Bader Ginsberg (not a Classics major) at Columbia Law School
1981
The Yastrzemski of Prima Porta