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Barbara Weiden Boyd
Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, Chair of Classics Department
Spring 2008
- Classical Mythology (CLAS 101)
- Virgil (LATN 305)
| Phone | (207) 725-3501 |
| Title | Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek |
| Department | CLASSICS |
| Work Location | 106 Sills Hall |
| bboyd@bowdoin.edu |
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Barbara Weiden Boyd, Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, holds a B.A. from Manhattanville College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan.
Her scholarly specialization is Latin poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Ovid. She has published widely on a variety of Roman writers, including Virgil, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sallust. She is the author of Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), and is the editor of Brill's Companion to Ovid (Leiden and New York: E.J. Brill, 2001). She has also published a textbook, Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 (Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2000) and accompanying Teacher's Guide (Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2002). Current projects include a book on Ovid's narrative techniques, a commentary on Ovid's Remedia amoris, and a supplement to the Aeneid textbook.
In addition to courses in Greek and Latin languages and literatures, Professor Boyd teaches courses on classical mythology, Rome in the age of Augustus, and the Roman family. She also has travelled and studied extensively in Italy, where she lived while teaching classical studies for two years at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.