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David A. Traill Director and Professor, Classics Program datraill@ucdavis.edu 712A Sproul Hall (530) 752-6441

Member of the UC Davis Faculty since 1970.

Education
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. (Classics) 1971.
University of St. Andrews. M.A. (Classics) 1964.

Teaching Interests
Latin and Greek language and literature, particularly verse authors; Ancient Epic: Greek Tragedy; Medieval Latin; Pompeii.

Research Interests
Latin poetry (Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid); Medieval Latin lyric; life and work of Heinrich Schliemann

Books
Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit. London: John Murray/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Later translated into French, Italian, Greek and Japanese.

Excavating Schliemann: collected papers on Schliemann. Illinois Classical Studies Supplement 4. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

Myth, Scandal, and History: The Heinrich Schliemann Controversy and a First Edition of the Mycenaean Diary. Co-edited with William M. Calder III. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.

Walahfrid Strabo's Visio Wettini: text, translation and commentary. Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters, Bd. 2. Bern and Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1974.

Selected Articles
"The Origin of the Ripoll Love Poems." In Actas do IV Congresso Internacional de Latim Medieval Hispanico, Lisboa, 12-15 de Outubro de 2005 (Lisbon 2006) 915-912.

"A Cluster of Poems by Philip the Chancellor in Carmina Burana 21-36" Studi Medievali, ser. 3, 47 (2006) 267-285.

"Walter of Châtillon's In Domino confido (W.3): where and when was it first performed?" in Poesía Latina Medieval (Siglos V-XV) Actas del IV Congreso del "Internationales Mittellateinerkomitee," Santiago de Compostela, 12-15 septiembre de 2002. (Florence 2005) 851-862.

Article on Heinrich Schliemann in Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia (Microsoft, 2004).

"Philip the Chancellor and F10: Expanding the Canon." Filologia Mediolatina 10 (2003) 219-248.

"Carmina Burana 59: A Plea for Chastity--or Free Love?" Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 38 (2003) 189-98.

"Boxers and Generals at Mount Eryx." American Journal of Philology 122 (2001) 405-413.

"Reaching the Right Harbor: Negotiating the Double Entendres of CB 128." Filologia Mediolatina 8 (2001) 173-78.

"Mal d'Amour, Joie d'Amour: A New Edition and Interpretation of CB 60/60a." Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 36 (2001) 95-112.

"Priam"s Treasure: Clearly a Composite." Anatolian Studies. 50 (2000) 17-36.

"Insistent Questions." Contribution to a debate: entitled "Behind the Mask of Agamemnon." Archaeology 52.4 (July/August 1999) 51-59

"Callimachus' Singing Sea (hymn 2.106)." Classical Philology 93 (1998) 215-222.