Neil Coffee
Assistant Professor
Phone: 645-2154
Email: ncoffee@buffalo.edu
Graduate Degrees:
- M.A.: University of Chicago Department of Classics (1999).
- Ph.D.: University of Chicago Department of Classics (2003).
Expertise/Research Interests:
- Epic poetry, Roman imperial literature and culture, Hellenistic philosophy, classical tradition, conversational Latin (information on the 2008 Conventiculum Buffaloniense).
Selected Publications:
- "Statius' Theseus: Martial or Merciful?" Classical Philology, forthcoming.
- "Eteocles, Polynices, and the Economics of Violence in Statius' Thebaid" American Journal of Philology 127.3 (2006): 415-52.
- "The φορτηγοί of Theognis 667-82" Classical Quarterly 56.1 (2006): 29-30.
Forthcoming Book:
- The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic, University of Chicago Press, Spring 2009
Undergraduate Courses:
- Introductory Greek, Intermediate Latin, Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Vergil's Eclogues, Latin Epistolography, The Philosophical Poetry of Lucretius, Roman Civilization.
Graduate Courses:
- History of Latin Literature, Vergil and His Critics, Exchange Ideologies and Poetics in Classical Literature.