Elaine Fantham

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Rosamund Elaine Fantham (born Crosthwaite ; born May 25, 1933 in Liverpool , † July 11, 2016 in Toronto ) was a British classical philologist .

Elaine Fantham studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Liverpool . In Liverpool she received her doctorate in 1962 with a dissertation A Commentary on the Curculio of Plautus with Roland Gregory Austin and Otto Skutsch . She then taught classical philology at Indiana University for several years before becoming a professor at the University of Toronto in 1968 . In 1986 she was appointed to the Giger Endowed Professorship at Princeton . She taught there until her retirement in 2000. From 1989 to 1992 she was in charge of the Princeton Department of Classics . After her retirement , she continued teaching and lecturing in a variety of ways until she retired from teaching for health reasons in 2009.

Fantham was an internationally recognized specialist in Latin literature . She dealt with Roman comedy, Latin epic and rhetoric, as well as Roman religion and the social history of Roman women. In 2008 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Philological Association (Society for Classical Studies) . In 2004 she was president of the organization. She translated parts of the work of Erasmus von Rotterdam into English and commented on works by Ovid , Lukan and Seneca .

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  • Editor with Anthony A. Barrett and John C. Yardley : The Emperor Nero. A Guide to the Ancient Sources , Princeton University Press, Princeton / New Jersey 2016, ISBN 9780691156514 .
  • Latin Poets and Italian Gods , University of Toronto Press, 2009, ISBN 1442640596 .
  • Julia Augusti. The Emperor's Daughter , London 2006, ISBN 0-415-33146-3 .
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses , Oxford 2004, ISBN 0195154096 .
  • The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore , Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-926315-9 . ( Review ; PDF; 53 kB)
  • Ovid: Fasti, Book IV , Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0521449960 .
  • Roman Literary Culture. From Cicero to Apuleius , Baltimore 1995, ISBN 0-8018-5204-8 .
    • German: Literary life in ancient Rome. Social history of Roman literature from Cicero to Apuleius , transl. Theodor Heinze, Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 1998 ISBN 3-476-01592-0 .
  • Women in the Classical World: Image and Text , New York a. a. 1995, ISBN 0-19-506727-4 .
  • Lucan: De Bello Civili, Book II , Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 0521422418 .
  • Seneca's Troades: a Literary Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary , Princeton University Press 1982, ISBN 069103561X .
  • Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery , Toronto 1972, ISBN 0802052622 .

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SURNAME Fantham, Elaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fantham, Rosamund Elaine (full name); Crosthwaite, Rosamund Elaine (maiden name); Fantham, R. Elaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Classical Philologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2016
Place of death Toronto