James O'Hara

James O'Hara (born 1959) is an American scholar of Latin literature. He is the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Books Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid (Princeton University Press, 1990) True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (University of Michigan Press, 1996) Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge University Press, 2007) References American Latinists University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty 1959 births Living people