Education
Fantham studied classics at Oxford University.
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Elaine Fantham
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Career
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 and the president of the American Philological Association for 2004. Fantham is an expert on Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion and the social history of Roman women.
She is classics commentator on National Public Radio"s Weekend Edition.
She received her doctorate in 1962. Foreign 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.
Fantham is part of the advisory boards of different scientific periodicals, amongst others Materiali e discussioni per l"analisi dei testi classici.
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Society for Classical Studies.
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United Kingdom