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Nagel, Rebecca

Rebecca Nagel

(Associate Professor)

Ph.D., Classical Philology, Harvard University (1995)
B.A., with High Distinction, Classics, University of Toronto (1988)

2-13 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-2570

rebecca.nagel@ualberta.ca

I came to the University of Alberta in 1996. My primary research area is Latin literature of the early Empire. My secondary research area is the Classical tradition in twentieth-century Britain, particularly in the writings of Vita Sackville-West. Current projects include an article on the presentation of Medea in Valerius Flaccus and an article on the use of Latin and Greek in Sackville-West's poem The Garden.

Articles

"Statius' Horatian Lyrics, Silvae 4.5 and 4.7," Classical World  102.2 (2009) 143-157.

"The Classical Tradition in Vita Sackville-West's Solitude,"  International Journal of the Classical Tradition 15.3 (2008) 407-427.

"Introduction" to Commemoration in Antiquity. A Special Issue of Mouseion 8.3 (2008) i-ii.

 "Farming Poetry: Vita Sackville-West and Virgil’s Georgics," Classical and Modern Literature 24.1 (2004) 1-22.

 "Poets and Lovers in the Snow," Mouseion 3.3 (2003) 339-53.

 "Virginia Woolf on Reading Greek," Classical World 96.1 (2002) 61-75.

"Literary and Filial Modesty in Statius, Silvae 5.3," Ramus 29.1 (2000) 47-59.

"The Lyric Lover in Horace, Odes 1.15 and 1.17," Phoenix 54.1-2 (2000) 53-63.

"Polynices the Charioteer (Statius, Thebaid 6.296-549)," Echos du Monde Classique / Classical Views 18.3 (1999) 381-396.

"Epitaph of L. Valerius Sabinus," in "Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University," ed. John Bodel. American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 92-93.

Book Reviews

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid. By Randall T. Ganiban. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Forthcoming in Mouseion.

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War. By Charles McNelis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 203. Classical Philology 103.4 (2008) 454-458.

Statius, Silvae 5. Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. By Bruce Gibson. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Monographs). 2006. Pp. liii + 492. Phoenix 62.3-4 (2008) 402-405.

 The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid. By P. J. Heslin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp.xx + 349. Mouseion 7.3 (2007) 271-274.

Horace: Image, Identity, and Audience. By Randall L. B. McNeill. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 188. Phoenix 57.3-4 (2003) 344-345.

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage. By Phebe Lowell Bowditch. Berkeley: University of California Press (Classics and Contemporary Thought 7). 2001. Pp. 281. Phoenix 57.1-2 (2003) 171-173.

Stace, Poète Épique: Originalité et cohérence. By Fernand Delarue. Louvain and Paris: Éditions Peeters (Bibliothèque d’Études Classiques 20). 2000. Pp. 453. Phoenix 56.3-4 (2002) 372-374.

La Morale Héroïque dans les Épopées Latines d’Époque Flavienne: Tradition et Innovation. By François Ripoll. Louvain and Paris: Éditions Peeters (Bibliothèque d’Études Classiques 14). 1998. Pp. 595. Phoenix 54.1-2 (2000) 179-180.

Epicedion: Hommage à P. Papinius Statius 96-1996. Edited by Fernand Delarue, Sophia Georgacopoulou, Pierre Laurens, and Anne-Marie Taisne. Poitiers: La Licorne, 1996. Pp. 344. Phoenix 52.1-2 (1998) 167-169.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Statius' Horatian Lyrics, Silvae 4.5 and 4.7," Classical World 102.2 (2009) 143-158.

"The Classical Tradition in Vita Sackville-West's Solitude," International Journal of the Classical Tradition 15.3 (2008) 407-427.