JOHN MILLER
Professor and Chair

John Miller

Office: B018 Cocke Hall
Office Phone: 924-3008
E-mail: jfm4j@virginia.edu

Research Interests

My research has concentrated in Latin literature, especially Augustan poetry. I am very interested in the Hellenistic background of Roman poetry and in Roman religion. My current major project is a book on Augustan Apollo. Ovid is never far from my thoughts. I welcome all theoretical approaches with which we can add to our knowledge of classical antiquity.


Selected Publications (see curriculum vitae for full list)

  • Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the Fasti (Studien zur klassischen Philologie 55, Frankfurt & New York 1991)
  • "Horace's Pindaric Apollo (Odes 3.4.60-4)," Classical Quarterly 48 (1998) 545-52
  • "Triumphus in Palatio," American Journal of Philology 121 (2000) 409-22
  • "Tabucchi's Dream of Ovid," Literary Imagination 3 (2001) 237-47
  • "Ovid and the Augustan Palatine (Tristia 3.1)," in Vertis in usum. Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney, edd. J. F. Miller, C. Damon, and K. S. Myers (Leipzig and Munich 2002) 129-39
  • "Ovid's Liberalia, " in Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at Its Bimillenium, ed. G. Herbert-Brown (Oxford 2003) 199-224
  • "Ovid's Fasti and the Neo-Latin Christian Calendar Poem," International Journal for the Classical Tradition 10 (2003) 173-86
  • "Propertian Reception of Virgil's Actian Apollo," Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 52 (2004) 73-84

Personal

Latin and Greek I first learned in Jesuit institutions, at high school in Washington DC and Xavier University's classically-based H.A.B. Program. My graduate degrees were earned at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, first an M.A. in Comparative Literature, then the Ph.D. in Classics. I still feel a deep intellectual debt to the many fine teachers at UNC during that era, especially Brooks Otis, Agnes Michels, and Friedrich Solmsen. After a stint at Minnesota I came to the University of Virginia in 1984 and continue to find it a very stimulating place for classical studies-an added plus is that one can run outdoors in Charlottesville all twelve months. I was Editor of Classical Journal for seven years and served as president of CAMWS in 1999-2000 and in 2003-2007 as Vice President for Program of the American Philological Association.