James O'Hara (born 1959) is an American scholar of Latin literature. He is the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Books
- Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in VergilâÂÂs Aeneid (Princeton University Press, 1990)
- True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (University of Michigan Press, 1996)
- Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
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