Alden Smith

Education

• Ph.D., Classics, University of Pennsylvania, 1990
• M.A., Classics, University of Vermont, 1983
• B.A. Greek, Latin, Dickinson College, 1981

Specialties

Virgil and Ovid, Hellenistic and Roman art, cultural presence of Rome from the Renaissance to the present

Research Interests

Alden Smith is a scholar of Virgil and Augustan poetry. Smith greatly enjoyed thirty years of teaching at Baylor and, prior to that, several years at Rutgers University.  While his main publications are on the works of Ovid and Virgil, recent publications include an edition with commentary (co-authored with Baylor alumna Cynthia Liu) on the Renaissance play Chrysis (a play by Silvio Ennea Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II) as well as a book entitled, The Eloquent Artist: Construction of Narrative in Early Renaissance Painting (co-authored with Italian scholar Piergiacomo Petrioli).  Smith currently serves on the Board of Directors for UniCamillus Medical University in Rome.