Sharon James
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Sharon Lynn James (2 January 1960 – 28 December 2023) was a Classicist and Professor of Classics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was an expert in Latin poetry, women and gender in antiquity, New Comedy, and Italian epic.
James received her PhD in 1991 in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Her doctoral thesis, "Dolcezza di figlio, pieta del vecchio padre": Parents and Children in the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy, examined child-parent relationships in Homer, Vergil, and Dante.[1][2]
