Raymond J. Clark
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Telephone: 613-236-1953 or 613-231-1115
E-mail: rjclark@mun.ca
University degrees
PhD, Postgraduate Certificate of Education, BA, Exeter University
Fields of interest
- Vergil and his influence in late antiquity
- Local traditions and history of Campania in Southern Italy
- Mythology, Literature esp. Epic, and Greek philosophy
Courses taught
- LCL4100 Vergil's Eclogues / Aeneid / Horace's Odes
- LCL3100 Selections from Latin authors
- CLA3130 Mythology through Literature / Homer and Vergil
Selected publications
The Eleusinian Mysteries and Vergil's 'Appearance-of-a-Terrifying-Female-Apparition-in-the-Underworld' motif in Aeneid 6, in P.A. Johnston and G. Casadio (eds), The Cults of Magna Graecia (2009) 190-203.
Dido's Moment of Death as a Cosmic Event in Vergil's Universe, in P. Granoff and K. Shinohara (eds), Heroes and Saints: The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives (Newcastle, 2007) 251-274.
Horace on Vergil's Sea-Crossing in Ode I. 3, Vergilius 50 (2004) 1-24.
The Cerberus-like function of the Gorgons in Vergil's Underworld (Aen. 6. 273-294), Classical Quarterly 53 (2003) 308-309.