Raymond Marks
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D., Brown
Interests: Silius Italicus; Roman Epic
Contact: marksr@missouri.edu
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I received my B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and my Ph.D. in Classics from Brown University (1999). Before coming to Missouri, I also spent a year as a D.A.A.D. Research grant recipient at Ruprecht-Karls Universität in Heidelberg, Germany (1997-1998) and was a Visiting Lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1999-2000). I have been a member of the department of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri since 2000.
My teaching at MU covers language courses, mostly Latin, at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate levels, Classical Humanities courses on Greek and Roman topics, and graduate seminars on Roman Epic (Lucan and Statius). I am also the Director of the Latin Sequence and the Supervisor of Graduate Instruction.
My primary field of interest is Latin poetry of the Flavian period, in particular, the epic poet Silius Italicus. My interests also extend to poetry of the Augustan period and medieval Latin literature. Recent projects include a translation and commentary of Widukind of Corvey’s Res Gestae Saxonicae and a commentary on book 1 of Statius’ Thebaid.
Publications:
“Augustus and I: Horace and ‘Horatian’ Identity in Odes 3.14,” American Journal of Philology 129.1 (2008): pp. 77-100.
“Getting Ahead: Decapitation as Political Metaphor in Silius Italicus’ Punica,” Mnemosyne 61.1 (2008): pp-66-88.
“En, reddo tua tela tibi: Crista and Sons in Silius, Pun. X, 92-169,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIII. Collection Latomus, 2006. Pp. 390-404.
From Republic to Empire: Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, vol. 152. Frankfurt am Main, 2005.
"Per Vulnera Regnum: Self-Destruction, Self-Sacrifice, and Devotio in Punica 4-10," Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 34.2 (2005): pp. 127-151.
“Silius Italicus,” in J. M. Foley, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic. Oxford, 2005. Pp. 528-537.
“Of Kings, Crowns, and Boundary Stones: Cipus and the Hasta Romuli in Metamorphoses 15,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 134.1 (2004): pp. 107-131.
“Hannibal in Liternum,” in P. Thibodeau and H. Haskell, eds., Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C. J. Putnam on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Afton, 2004. Pp. 128-144.
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