Richard J. Tarrant

Conference in honor of Richard Tarrant

September 25, 2018

On September 21st and 22nd, there was a wonderful celebration of the career of Richard Tarrant in the Thompson Room at the Barker Center. The event was organized by three of his former doctoral students: Lauren Curtis (PhD ’13), Irene Peirano Garrison (PhD ’07), and Jarrett Welsh (PhD ’09). See the event program below.

“Texts, Authors, and Readers: A Conference in Honor of Richard Tarrant”

Friday 21 September

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Tarrant, Richard J. 2006. “Seeing Seneca Whole?” Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics, edited by Katharina Volk and Gareth D Williams, 1–17. Leiden: Brill.
P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Oxford Classical Texts)
Tarrant, Richard, ed. 2004. P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Oxford Classical Texts). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Publisher's Version Abstract

For this edition of the Metamorphoses R. J. Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfth-century manuscripts, the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings. He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors, and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated. This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovid's greatest work.

Virgil: Aeneid Book XII
Tarrant, Richard, ed. 2012. Virgil: Aeneid Book XII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Version Abstract

Book XII brings Virgil's Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus' death – a finale that many readers find more unsettling than triumphant. In this, the first detailed single-volume commentary on the book in any language, Professor Tarrant explores Virgil's complex portrayal of the opposing champions, his use and transformation of earlier poetry (Homer's in particular) and his shaping of the narrative in its final phases. In addition to the linguistic and thematic commentary, the volume contains a substantial introduction that discusses the larger literary and historical issues raised by the poem's conclusion; other sections include accounts of Virgil's metre, later treatments of the book's events in art and music, and the transmission of the text. The edition is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students and will also be of interest to scholars of Latin literature.

Professor wins award from Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana!

May 12, 2015

On Virgil’s birthday, October 15, in Mantua, Professor Richard Tarrant will receive the Premio Internazionale Virgilio from the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana. In receiving this accolade he follows in the footsteps of the late Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Wendell Clausen, who was awarded the Premio Virgilio in 1994. This year the prize is being awarded ex aequo to Professor Tarrant and to Werner Suerbaum (Emeritus, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).