Donald Lavigne

Donald Lavigne is an Associate Professor of Classics at Texas Tech University, specializing in the oral/poetic landscape of Archaic Greece and its influence on Hellenistic poets. His research focuses on the iambic tradition in Greece and Rome, as well as ancient epigram.

• Current projects include a book on iambic poetic personas and a study of epigrammatic poetics.
• He has published on the new Posidippus roll with Allen Romano.
• Since 2007, serves as Book Review Associate Editor for The American Journal of Philology.

His work spans Classical philology, literary analysis, and interdisciplinary studies of ancient texts, with particular attention to fictional strategies in epigram and their cultural contexts.