Neil Coffee
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Phone: (716) 645-0452
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, classics and computing (Tesserae Project), conversational Latin (information on the 2009 Conventiculum Buffaloniense).
Selected Publications:
- The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic. 2009. University of Chicago Press.
- "Social Relations in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile" forthcoming in Brill's Companion to Lucan.
- "Statius' Theseus: Martial or Merciful?" Classical Philology 104.2 (2009): 221-8.
- "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.
Undergraduate Courses:
- Introductory Greek, Intermediate Latin, Classical Epic Traditions, 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.