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Jim O'Hara

George L. Paddison Professor of Latin

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  • 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
    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, 8 by me and forthcoming SP 2018 (ask if you want to see a draft!)
  • Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid (Princeton 1990) (now available again, paperback on-demand!)
    http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4585.html

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