Don Lavigne , Ph.D. Associate Professor of Classics

Donald E. Lavigne is Editor of Helios and Assoc. Prof. of Classics at Texas Tech, where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Humanities Center.  His work largely concerns the oral/poetic landscape of Archaic Greece and its influence on the Hellenistic and (some) Roman poets. He has been focused on the seamier side of the Classical World in his research on the iambic tradition in Greece and Rome and in his exploration of epigram. He is currently at work on a book on ancient epigram, exploring the poetic strategies employed in the overtly fictional and divisible epigrammatic poetics.