Elaine Fantham

Elaine Fantham is a British classicist. She was Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University from 1986 to 1999. She was chair of the Department of Classics at Princeton from 1989 to 1992.

Fantham is an expert on Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion and the social history of Roman women.

Career

Fantham studied classics at Oxford University and then proceeded to the University of Liverpool where she received her doctorate in 1962. For some time, she taught classics at Indiana University. From 1968 to 1986 Fantham was professor of classics at the University of Toronto in Canada. In 1986 she joined the classics department at Princeton University, where she taught until her retirement in 1999.

Awards

*On January 5, 2008 Fantham was given the Distinguished Service Award of the American Philological Association. [ [http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/news/ Princeton Classics Department newsletter] ]

Works

Books

*"Julia Augusti: the Emperor's Daughter" (2006)
*"Ovid's Metamorphoses" (2004)
*"The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore" (2004)
*"Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius" (1995)
*"Women in the Classical World: Image and Text" (1994) with H. Foley "et al".
*"Studies in Republican Latin Imagery" (1972)

Commentaries

*Ovid, "Fasti IV" (1998)
*Lucan, "De Bello Civili Book II" (1992)
*Seneca, "Troades" (1982)

Translations

*Erasmus, "The Educational and Literary Works" (1989).

References