James Orsquo;Harais the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author ofDeath and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergilrsquo;s Aeneid(Princeton 1990),True Names: Vegil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay(Ann Arbor 1996), andInconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies at Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan(Cambridge 2007).