Dr. Grace West

Associate Professor of Classics

Classics
Location: Carpenter Hall 214
Office Phone: 972-721-5368
Fax: 972-721-4088

gwest@udallas.edu
 

Expertise


Classics, Latin, Greek.

 

Degree(s)/Education


  • B.A,. Classics and Humanities, Scripps College, 1968.

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  • C.Phil., Classics, UCLA 1972.

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  • Ph.D., Classics, UCLA 1975.

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  • Studied at the Intercollegiate Classical Center (Rome, Italy), in Classics, fall semester 1966.

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  • Studied at the University of Heidelberg (Fulbright-Hays Grant), in Classics, 1972-74.

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  • Studied at the University of Dallas: one advanced course in German literature, 1974; one graduate course in myth, 1976.
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    Teaching and Research Interests


  • Greek and Roman civilization and its survival into the present time.

  • Myth and the literature through which it persists; Latin and basic education.
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    Representative Publications


  • Vergil's "Helpful" Sisters: Anna and Juturna in the Aeneid," Vergilius 25 (1979) 10-19; reprinted in Vergil at Sarasota, ed. Gilbert Lawall, New England Classical Newletter Publications (Amherst, Mass. 1979) 33-44.

  • "Aeneus and Dido," Transactions of the American Philological Association 110 (1980) 315-24.

  • "Going by the Book: Classical Allusions in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus," Studies in Philology 70 (1982) 62-77.

  • "Teaching Classics on Television," Classical Journal 77 (1982) 365-74.

  • (Plato and Aristophanes), Four Texts on Socrates: Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, and Clouds, translated with notes, with Thomas G. West, Ithaca and New York, 1984, Cornell University Press; 2nd edition, 1999.
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