Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare

Richard F. Thomas is Professor of Greek and Latin and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests are generally focused on Hellenistic Greek and Roman literature, particularly that of Augustan Rome, intertextuality, translation and translation theory, the reception of classical literature in all periods, and the works of Bob Dylan. Recent books include Reading Virgil and his Texts: Studies in Intertextuality (1999) and Virgil and the Augustan Reception (2001), and two co-edited volumes, Classics and the Uses of Reception (with Charles Martindale, 2006) and Bob Dylan's Performance Artistry (with Catharine Mason, 2007).