Peter Davis

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  1975 - 2008	Associate Professor	University of Tasmania

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  French	Can read, understand spoken and peer review
  German	Can read
  Greek, Ancient (to 1453)	Can read
  Italian	Can read, understand spoken and peer review
  Latin	Can read
  Spanish; Castilian	Can read

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  1970 - 1975	Monash University	Australia	PhD

• Research Interests

  Classics Latin and Classical Greek Languages Latin and Classical Greek Literature Literary Studies

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2014	Davis, P. J. (2014). Commento al libro VIII delle Argonautiche di Valerio Flacco, written by Pellucchi, T.. Mnemosyne, 67(3), 505-507. DOI
  2012	Davis, P. (2012). 'A simple girl'? Medea in Ovid Heroides 12. Ramus-Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature, 41(1-2), 33-48. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
  2010	Davis, P. (2010). Jason at Colchis: technology and human progress in Valerius Flaccus. Ramus-Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature, 39(1), 1-13. WoS7

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2024	Davis, P. J. (2024). Ovid: Amores Book 3 Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford University Press.
  2020	Davis, P. J. (2020). Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  2015	Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. J. (Eds.) (2015). The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. University of Pennsylvania Press. Scopus9

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2016	Davis, P. (2016). Senecan tragedy and the politics of Flavian literature. In E. Dodson-Robinson (Ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy: Scholarly, Theatrical and Literary Receptions (1 ed., pp. 57-74). Online: Brill. DOI
  2016	Davis, P. (2016). Freedom of speech in Virgil and Ovid. In P. Mitsis, & I. Ziogas (Eds.), Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry (1 ed., pp. 183-198). Berlin: Walter De Gruyter. DOI
  2015	Davis, P. (2015). Statius' Achilleid: The paradoxical epic. In W. Dominik, C. Newlands, & K. Gervais (Eds.), Brill's Companion to Statius (1 ed., pp. 157-172). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  2015	Davis, P. (2015). Seneca's Thyestes and the political tradition in Roman tragedy. In G. Harrison (Ed.), Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (1 ed., pp. 151-167). Leiden: Brill. DOI
  2015	Davis, P. (2015). Argo's Flavian politics: the workings of power in Valerius Flaccus. In H. Baltussen, & P. Davis (Eds.), The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes (1 ed., pp. 157-175). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  2015	Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. (2015). Parrhêsia, free speech, and self-censorship. In H. Baltussen, & P. Davis (Eds.), The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes (1 ed., pp. 1-17). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Scopus14
  2014	Davis, P. (2014). Medea: from epic to tragedy. In M. Heerink, & G. Manuwald (Eds.), Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus (1 ed., pp. 192-210). Netherlands: Brill. DOI
  2012	Davis, P. (2012). Reception of elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan poetry. In B. Gold (Ed.), A Companion to Roman Love Elegy (1 ed., pp. 443-458). United Kingdom: Wiley. DOI Scopus4

Peter Davis contributes to the Honours porgram in Classical Studies. He also helps in the running of two Reading Groups. One meets weekly and focuses on Latin poetry in Latin; the other is wider in scope and meets fortnightly to discuss Greek and Latin literature in translation.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Classics	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Ms Shona Kay Edwards

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2015 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Silius Italicus' Punica 8. 1-241: a Commentary	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Janice Maree Lee

• Email: peter.davis@adelaide.edu.au