Elaine Fantham

Rosamund Elaine Fantham (nee Crosthwaite; born May 25, 1933, Liverpool) is a British classical philologist.

Elaine Fantham studied at the University of Oxford and at the University of Liverpool. In Liverpool it was in 1962 his doctorate with a dissertation A Commentary on the Curculio of Plautus at Roland Gregory Austin and Otto Skutsch. She then taught for several years Classical Philology at the University of Indiana before 1968 was professor at the University of Toronto. In 1986, she was was appointed to the Giger Foundation Professorship to Princeton. There she taught until her retirement in 2000. Between 1989 and 1992 she was the Department of Classics from Princeton before. After her retirement she sat in teaching and lecturing continued in various forms until 2009 had to withdraw for health reasons from the teaching itself. However, their scientific activities, it continues unabated.

Fantham is an internationally recognized specialist in Latin literature. It deals with the Roman comedy, the Latin epic poetry and rhetoric as well as the Roman religion and the social history of Roman women. In 2008 she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the American Philological Association. In 1994, she stood in front of the organization as President. Translated parts of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam into English and annotated works of Ovid, Lucan and Seneca.

Writings

• Latin Poets and Italian Gods, University of Toronto Press, 2009, ISBN 1442640596th
• Julia Augusti. The Emperor 's Daughter, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-33146-3.
• Ovid 's Metamorphoses, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0,195,154,096th
• Ovid: Fasti, Book IV, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0,521,449,960th
• 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, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998 ISBN 3-476-01592-0 -Weimar.