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 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

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 College of the Holy Cross alumni {{US-academic-bio-stub