Gregson Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregson Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregson |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Divine Immortality and Its (Dis)Contents
References to the myth of Tithonus and Eos in the poetry of Horace and his pre-classical Greek model, Sappho, have provoked philological controversies about the imagined mode of existence of the handsome Trojan after his abduction by Eos, Goddess of Dawn. According to the standard variant of the myth, Tithonus was granted immortality, though not eternal youth, by the supreme Olympian god, Zeus. In the two Horatian passages in the Odes where Titho…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Ethical Argument and Epicurean Subtext in Horace, Odes 1.1 and 2.16
The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the prominence of Epicurean thought in the ethical subtext of Horatian lyric by focusing on two key poems (C.1.1 and 2.16) that frame his deep-seated “conversations” regarding central precepts of the Garden. Both of these Odes on the eudaimonist theme rely on the self-defining scaffolding of the priamel: the programmatic inaugural poem of the Tribiblos (C.I.I) robustly endorses the fundamental Epicurean d…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Violent Retribution and Pietas
Forging a Caribbean Literary Style
This essay revisits the vexed question of Aimé Césaire's poetics in relation to the choice of the language and style of his signature prose-poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. It seeks to reframe the issue in terms of the ancient Greco-Roman concept of "levels of style" and complicates the conventional notion of a rigid disjunction between local vernacular and standard metropolitan languages as they are deployed in major Caribbean literary te…
Parthenope , The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic
This study of the 'Eclogues' focusses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ('eudaimonia') - ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located in the vicinity of Naples ("Parthenope"). The latent "interplay of ideas" implicit in the songs of the various poet-herdsmen centers on differing atti…
Companion to Horace
A Companion to Horace
The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's PoeticVoice 7 David Armstrong 2. Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument34 William Anderson 3. Horace and Imperial Patronage 53 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 4. The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy75 Bernard Frischer Part II Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts 91 5. The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement 93 David Mankin 6. Defi ning a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus ly…
Reframing the Homeric
Wine and the symposium
The topic of 'Wine and the symposium' constitutes a major preoccupation of Horace’s poetry from the early Epodes to the late Epistles . It is therefore crucial to an understanding of his underlying system of values. The main focus of this condensed treatment will be on the Odes , with occasional glances at pertinent passages from the Epistles . Since wine is seldom mentioned in Horace’s lyric corpus outside of the context of the symposium, the co…
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, …
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…
Pastoral Sites
Epic of the Dispossessed
In Epic of the Dispossessed, Robert D. Hamner offers an insightful, well-researched analysis of Omeros, the masterful epic poem by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. Rich and various, Omeros is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. Despite Walcott's insistence that he violates the formula - he notes his autobiographical presence in the poem and the absence of classical heroic figures and epic battles - the poem incorporates fragments of …
The Poetics of Derek Walcott
Research Article| April 01 1997 The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives Gregson Davis Gregson Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 227–228. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gregson Davis; The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives. South Atlantic…
Reflections on Omeros
Research Article| April 01 1997 Reflections on Omeros Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Walcott; Reflections on Omeros. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1997; 96 (2): 229–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
With No Homeric Shadow
Research Article| April 01 1997 "With No Homeric Shadow": The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros Gregson Davis Gregson Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 321–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-321 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gregson Davis; "With No Homeric Shadow": The Disavowal of Epic in De…
Derek Walcott's Poetry
With the 1989 publication of his epic poem, Omeros, Derek Walcott stands as a major poet of the twentieth century. However, while most critics agree that Walcott's writing warrants considerable attention, they fault it for being too derivative. Rei Terada deals explicitly with facets of Walcott's work that are often misunderstood by critics and other readers. Terada is particularly interested in Walcott's provocative hypothesis that there is a co…
Polyhymnia
Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies—what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication, consolation, and praise and dispraise—Davis produces enlightening, new interpretations of this classic work. Polyhymnia, named after…
Polyhymnia
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
Carmina/Iambi
The Persona of Licymnia
Epic of the Dispossessed
In Epic of the Dispossessed, Robert D. Hamner offers an insightful, well-researched analysis of Omeros, the masterful epic poem by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. Rich and various, Omeros is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. Despite Walcott's insistence that he violates the formula - he notes his autobiographical presence in the poem and the absence of classical heroic figures and epic battles - the poem incorporates fragments of …
Reflections on Omeros
Research Article| April 01 1997 Reflections on Omeros Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Walcott; Reflections on Omeros. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1997; 96 (2): 229–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
Derek Walcott's Poetry
With the 1989 publication of his epic poem, Omeros, Derek Walcott stands as a major poet of the twentieth century. However, while most critics agree that Walcott's writing warrants considerable attention, they fault it for being too derivative. Rei Terada deals explicitly with facets of Walcott's work that are often misunderstood by critics and other readers. Terada is particularly interested in Walcott's provocative hypothesis that there is a co…
With No Homeric Shadow
Research Article| April 01 1997 "With No Homeric Shadow": The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros Gregson Davis Gregson Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 321–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-321 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gregson Davis; "With No Homeric Shadow": The Disavowal of Epic in De…
Forging a Caribbean Literary Style
This essay revisits the vexed question of Aimé Césaire's poetics in relation to the choice of the language and style of his signature prose-poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. It seeks to reframe the issue in terms of the ancient Greco-Roman concept of "levels of style" and complicates the conventional notion of a rigid disjunction between local vernacular and standard metropolitan languages as they are deployed in major Caribbean literary te…
A Companion to Horace
The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's PoeticVoice 7 David Armstrong 2. Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument34 William Anderson 3. Horace and Imperial Patronage 53 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 4. The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy75 Bernard Frischer Part II Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts 91 5. The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement 93 David Mankin 6. Defi ning a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus ly…
Pastoral Sites
The Poetics of Derek Walcott
Research Article| April 01 1997 The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives Gregson Davis Gregson Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 227–228. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gregson Davis; The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives. South Atlantic…
The Persona of Licymnia
The Persona of Licymnia
Carmina/Iambi
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
Polyhymnia
Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies—what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication, consolation, and praise and dispraise—Davis produces enlightening, new interpretations of this classic work. Polyhymnia, named after…
Polyhymnia
The Poetics of Derek Walcott
Research Article| April 01 1997 The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives Gregson Davis Gregson Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 227–228. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gregson Davis; The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives. South Atlantic…
Reflections on Omeros
Research Article| April 01 1997 Reflections on Omeros Derek Walcott Derek Walcott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Walcott; Reflections on Omeros. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1997; 96 (2): 229–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.12…
With No Homeric Shadow
Research Article| April 01 1997 "With No Homeric Shadow": The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros Gregson Davis Gregson Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 321–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-96-2-321 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gregson Davis; "With No Homeric Shadow": The Disavowal of Epic in De…
Derek Walcott's Poetry
With the 1989 publication of his epic poem, Omeros, Derek Walcott stands as a major poet of the twentieth century. However, while most critics agree that Walcott's writing warrants considerable attention, they fault it for being too derivative. Rei Terada deals explicitly with facets of Walcott's work that are often misunderstood by critics and other readers. Terada is particularly interested in Walcott's provocative hypothesis that there is a co…
Epic of the Dispossessed
In Epic of the Dispossessed, Robert D. Hamner offers an insightful, well-researched analysis of Omeros, the masterful epic poem by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. Rich and various, Omeros is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. Despite Walcott's insistence that he violates the formula - he notes his autobiographical presence in the poem and the absence of classical heroic figures and epic battles - the poem incorporates fragments of …
Pastoral Sites
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…
Reframing the Homeric
Wine and the symposium
The topic of 'Wine and the symposium' constitutes a major preoccupation of Horace’s poetry from the early Epodes to the late Epistles . It is therefore crucial to an understanding of his underlying system of values. The main focus of this condensed treatment will be on the Odes , with occasional glances at pertinent passages from the Epistles . Since wine is seldom mentioned in Horace’s lyric corpus outside of the context of the symposium, the co…
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, …
Companion to Horace
A Companion to Horace
The Biographical and Social Foundations of Horace's PoeticVoice 7 David Armstrong 2. Horace's Friendship: Adaptation of a Circular Argument34 William Anderson 3. Horace and Imperial Patronage 53 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 4. The Roman Site Identified as Horace's Villa at Licenza, Italy75 Bernard Frischer Part II Horatian Lyric: Literary Contexts 91 5. The Epodes: Genre, Themes, and Arrangement 93 David Mankin 6. Defi ning a Lyric Ethos: Archilochus ly…
Parthenope , The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic
This study of the 'Eclogues' focusses on Vergil's exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ('eudaimonia') - ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located in the vicinity of Naples ("Parthenope"). The latent "interplay of ideas" implicit in the songs of the various poet-herdsmen centers on differing atti…
Violent Retribution and Pietas
Forging a Caribbean Literary Style
This essay revisits the vexed question of Aimé Césaire's poetics in relation to the choice of the language and style of his signature prose-poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. It seeks to reframe the issue in terms of the ancient Greco-Roman concept of "levels of style" and complicates the conventional notion of a rigid disjunction between local vernacular and standard metropolitan languages as they are deployed in major Caribbean literary te…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Ethical Argument and Epicurean Subtext in Horace, Odes 1.1 and 2.16
The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the prominence of Epicurean thought in the ethical subtext of Horatian lyric by focusing on two key poems (C.1.1 and 2.16) that frame his deep-seated “conversations” regarding central precepts of the Garden. Both of these Odes on the eudaimonist theme rely on the self-defining scaffolding of the priamel: the programmatic inaugural poem of the Tribiblos (C.I.I) robustly endorses the fundamental Epicurean d…
Divine Immortality and Its (Dis)Contents
References to the myth of Tithonus and Eos in the poetry of Horace and his pre-classical Greek model, Sappho, have provoked philological controversies about the imagined mode of existence of the handsome Trojan after his abduction by Eos, Goddess of Dawn. According to the standard variant of the myth, Tithonus was granted immortality, though not eternal youth, by the supreme Olympian god, Zeus. In the two Horatian passages in the Odes where Titho…
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