 George A. Sheets
Department Chair
Associate Professor
tel.: 612-625-3326; fax:
612-624-4894
email: gasheets@umn.edu
B.A.
(Latin) Univ. of North Carolina (1970)
Int. Ctr. for Classical Studies, Rome (1968)
Ph.D. (Classical Studies) Duke University (1974)
Amer. Academy in Rome (Fellow/Classics)(1985)
J.D. William Mitchell College of Law (1990).
Statement of Interests
My research and teaching interests include comparative Indo-European linguistics, Greek and Latin literature, and Greek and Roman law and legal practice.
Selected Publications
“Elements of Style in Catullus,” in the forthcoming Blackwell’s Companion to Catullus, ed. M. Skinner, pp. 190-211.
“Distinguishing Cases and Conditions in Roman Legislation,” Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquité, 52 (2005 [2006]) 361-375.
"Rhythm in Catullus
34," Memoirs of the American Academy
in Rome
46 (2001) 11-21.
"Conceptualizing
International Law in Thucydides," American Journal of Philology
115 (1994) 51-73.
"Ennius Lyricus," Illinois
Classical Studies 8.1 (1983) 22-33.
"Plautus and Early Roman
Tragedy," Illinois
Classical Studies 8.2 (1983) 195-209.
Herodotus: Book I, Bryn Mawr Commentaries (Bryn Mawr:
1981).
"The Dialect Gloss,
Hellenistic Poetics, and Livius Andronicus," American Journal of
Philology 102 (1981) 58-78.
"The Dialectological
Implications of Secondary Mid-Vowels in Greek, American Journal of
Philology 100 (1979) 559-567.
"Palatalization in
Greek," Indogermanische Forschungen 80 (1975) 118-168.
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