Elaine Fantham

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Elaine Fantham is affiliated with the following schools: University of Liverpool, University of St Andrews, Indiana University Bloomington, Princeton University, University of Toronto

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According to Wikipedia, Elaine Fantham was a British-Canadian classicist whose expertise lay particularly in Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and in the social history of Roman women. Much of her work was concerned with the intersection of literature and Greek and Roman history. She spoke fluent Italian, German and French and presented lectures and conference papers around the world—including in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Argentina, and Australia.

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The Roman world of Cicero's De oratore (2004) (152)
Comparative studies in Republican Latin imagery (1972) (108)
Sex, Status, and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy (1975) (108)
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text (1994) (107)
Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius (1996) (86)
Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century after Christ (1978) (73)
Sexual Comedy in Ovid's Fasti: Sources and Motivation (1983) (72)
The hidden author : an interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon (1998) (68)
Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome (1991) (65)
Imitation and Evolution: The Discussion of Rhetorical Imitation in Cicero De Oratore 2. 87-97 and Some Related Problems of Ciceronian Theory (1978) (57)
Roman Drama and Roman History (2000) (51)
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (2012) (48)
Quintilian on Performance: Traditional and Personal Elements in "Institutio" 11.3 (1982) (47)
Roman Readings: Roman response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian (2011) (47)
TERENCE, DIPHILUS AND MENANDER (1968) (46)
The Performing Prince (2013) (45)
Roman Experience of Menander in the Late Republic and Early Empire (1984) (41)
Julia Augusti : the emperor's daughter (2006) (40)
Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context (2001) (36)
Lucan's Medusa-Excursus: Its Design and Purpose (1992) (36)
A Controversial Life (2011) (35)
Cicero: Cato Maior De Senectute (2004) (35)
Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Essays Presented to D. J. Conacher (1988) (34)
Virgil's Dido and Seneca's Tragic Heroines (1975) (33)
Latin Poets and Italian Gods (2009) (32)
Disowning and dysfunction in the declamatory family (2004) (31)
Act IV of the Menaechmi: Plautus and His Original (1968) (31)
Aspects of the language of Latin poetry (2000) (31)
Liberty and the People in Republican Rome (2005) (27)
The Image of Woman in Propertius’ Poetry (2006) (27)
The Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources (2016) (25)
Varietas and Satietas; De oratore 3.96––103 and the limits of ornatus. (1988) (25)
19. The role of Evander in Ovid’s Fasti (2011) (24)
The Cvrcvlio of Plautus: An Illustration of Plautine Methods In Adaptation (1965) (24)
The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome (2010) (23)
Caesar and the Mutiny: Lucan's Reshaping of the Historical Tradition in De bello civili 5. 237-373 (1985) (23)
The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature: ‘Envy and fear the begetter of hate’: Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred (1997) (20)
Chapter Twelve. With Malice Aforethought: The Ethics Of Malitia On Stage And At Law (2008) (19)
"Dic si quid potes de Sexto Annali": The Literary Legacy of Ennius's Pyrrhic War (2006) (18)
The Concept of Nature and Human Nature in Quintilian's Psychology and Theory of Instruction (1995) (18)
Fighting Words: Turnus at Bay in the Latin Council (Aeneid 11.234–446) (1999) (17)
The metamorphoses : Ovid's Roman games (1989) (15)
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius (2013) (13)
Ovid's Ceyx and Alcyone: The Metamorphosis of a Myth (1979) (12)
Aequabilitas in Cicero's Political Theory, and the Greek Tradition of Proportional Justice (1973) (12)
Seneca's Troades (1983) (12)
Sunt quibus in plures ius est transire figuras: Ovid's Self-Transformers in the "Metamorphoses" (1993) (12)
"Chironis exemplum": on teachers and surrogate fathers in "Achilleid" and "Silvae" (1999) (11)
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature 2: Latin Literature (1983) (11)
Seneca's Thyestes (2014) (9)
Orator 69‐74 (1984) (9)
Statius' Achilles and His Trojan Model (1979) (8)
Chapter 9. Dialogues Of Displacement: Seneca’S Consolations To Helvia And Polybius (2007) (7)
Ovid's Fasti: Politics, History, and Religion (2002) (7)
Aemilia Pudentilla: or the wealthy widow’s choice (2002) (7)
Ciceronian Conciliare and Aristotelian Ethos (1973) (7)
Caesar as an Intellectual (2009) (7)
Nihil Iam Ivra Natvrae Valent: Incest and Fratricide in Seneca's Phoenissae (1983) (7)
De Bello Civili. Book II (1992) (7)
Imago : Untersuchungen zum Bildbegriff der Römer (1978) (6)
Rewriting and Rereading the Fasti: Augustus, Ovid and Recent Classical Scholarship (1995) (6)
ZHLOTUPIA: A Brief Excursion into Sex, Violence, and Literary History (1986) (6)
THE PERILS OF PROPHECY: STATIUS’ AMPHIARAUS AND HIS LITERARY ANTECEDENTS (2006) (6)
Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry (2009) (6)
Ceres, Liber and Flora: Georgic and Anti-Georgic Elements in Ovid's Fasti (1993) (6)
TOWARDS A DRAMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH ACT OF PLAUTUS' AMPHITRUO (1973) (6)
Ancient Anger: The angry poet and the angry gods: problems of theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat (2004) (5)
The Fasti as a Source for Women's Participation in Roman Cult (2002) (5)
7. Covering the Head at Rome: Ritual and Gender (2008) (5)
Der Monolog bei Terenz (1969) (5)
Discordia Fratrum: Aspects of Lucan's Conception of Civil War (2010) (5)
Cicero's Pro L. Murena oratio (2013) (4)
The growth of literature and criticism at Rome (1990) (4)
Literarisches Leben im antiken Rom (1998) (3)
4. Heautontimoroumenos and Adelphoe : A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander (2011) (3)
13. Orator and/et Actor (2011) (3)
Religio ... dira loci: Two Passages in Lucan de Bello Civili 3 and Their Relation to Virgil's Rome and Latium (1996) (3)
Oxford World's Classics: Seneca: Selected Letters (2010) (2)
Family Finances (2019) (2)
Nymphas...e navibus esse: Decorum and Poetic Fiction in "Aeneid" 9. 77-122 and 10. 215-59 (1990) (2)
Chronological table of events, 107–49 B.C. (1992) (2)
Lucan: De Bello Civili, II (1994) (2)
Literature in the Roman Republic (2004) (1)
The Fourth Book of Odes (2012) (1)
The First Book of Letters (2012) (1)
7b. Women of the Demi-Monde and Sisterly Solidarity in the Cistellaria (2011) (1)
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1 (2017) (1)
COMMENTING ON COMMENTARIES: A PRAGMATIC POSTSCRIPT (2002) (1)
Terence and the Familiarisation of Comedy (2004) (1)
The Public Careers of L. Licinius Crassus and M. Antonius (2004) (1)
Review Article: Recent Readings of Ovid's Fasti (1995) (1)
7a. Domina-tricks, or How to Construct a Good Whore from a Bad One (2011) (1)
15. Quintilian on the Uses and Methods of Declamation (2011) (1)
Liberty and the people in republican Rome’, Transactions of the American Philological Association, . (2005) (1)
Natalie Boymel Kampen (2013) (1)
17. The Synchronistic Chapter of Gellius (N.A. 17.21) and Some Aspects of Roman Chronology and Cultural History Between 60 and 50 BCE (2011) (1)
More sentiment than science (2011) (1)
2. The Madman and the Doctor (2011) (1)
Art and Archaeology (2006) (1)
Fasti, book IV (1998) (1)
Censorship, Roman Style (1977) (1)
Book Review:Antike Theorien uber Entwicklung und Verfall der Redekunst Konrad Heldmann (1985) (0)
Literatur und die herrschenden Schichten: Von Vespasians Regierungsantritt bis zu Trajans Tod (1998) (0)
Literarisches Leben im antiken Rom : Sozialgeschichte der römischen Literatur von Cicero bis apuleius (1998) (0)
Book Review:Der "Phormio" des Terenz und der "Epidikazomenos" des Apollodor von Karystos Eckard Lefevre (1982) (0)
Senecas Phoenissen: Einleitung und Kommentar . Ed. Hirschberg Theo (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte xxxi). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1989. Pp. vii + 169. ISBN 3-11-011630-8. (1990) (0)
Die Heraufkunft des Prinzipats: Literarisches Leben in ›augusteischer‹ Zeit (1998) (0)
Literarische Kultur im Niedergang: Die antoninischen Jahre (1998) (0)
Zwischen Nero und Domitian: Die Herausforderung an die Dichtung (1998) (0)
Einleitung: Auf dem Weg zu einer Sozialgeschichte der lateinischen Literatur (1998) (0)
Eine Generation, die sich nicht entfalten kann: Unterdrückung und Überleben (1998) (0)
(B.) Baldarelli Accius und die vortrojanische Pelopidensage . (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, Neue Folge, 1. Reihe, 24.) Pp. 336. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna and Zurich: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004. Paper, €62. ISBN: 3-506-71785-5. (2006) (0)
Political Persuasion: Senate and Contio (2004) (0)
Petra Schierl: Die Tragödien des Pacuvius. Ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten mit Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung (2008) (0)
Cicero, Varro, and M. Claudius Marcellus (1977) (0)
Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius. Ancient Society and History (1998) (0)
The Annalists (2005) (0)
Rediscovering Aristotelian Invention (2004) (0)
7c. Maidens in Other-Land, or Broads Abroad: Plautus’ Poenulae (2011) (0)
VI. The Great Fire (2016) (0)
Two Levels of Orality in the Genesis of Pliny's Panegyricus (1999) (0)
6. Gods in Statian Settings (2009) (0)
(F. H.) Sandbach The comic theatre of Greece and Rome . (Ancient culture and society.) London: Chatto a Windus. 1977. Pp. 168, 4 plates, 2 text figs. £4.50 (bound), £2.25 (paper). (1978) (0)
Constructing the Dialogue: The Challenge of Plato (2004) (0)
De Officiis/On Duties-Cicero (1974) (0)
Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by S. J. Harrison (review) (2022) (0)
CHAPTER 1 The Performing Prince (2013) (0)
24. Incest and Fratricide in Seneca’s Phoenissae (2011) (0)
The Future Orator: Talent, Training, and the Choice of Model (2004) (0)
Telephus At Rome (2009) (0)
Excerpts from the Lost Book XXII preserved by Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, XII.2 (2010) (0)
The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and his Reputation by M. L. Clarke (review) (1982) (0)
12. Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century AD (2011) (0)
In short, although the book loses by putting its emphasis on exempla rather than the careers of novi homines, it contains much of value for the reader who will persevere beyond its relatively pedestrian rst half. Princeton University (2011) (0)
V. Britain and Germany (2016) (0)
Accius the Tragedian (2005) (0)
Author and Audience in Latin Literature ed. by Tony Woodman, Jonathan Powell (review) (2018) (0)
3. Philemon’s Thesauros as a Dramatization of Peripatetic Ethics (2011) (0)
2. Virgil’s Gods of the Land (2009) (0)
VII. The Emperor’s Wives (2016) (0)
Parallel summaries of Lucan, De bello civili 1–2, Livy, Periochae and Caesar, Bellum civile (1992) (0)
Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic by Elizabeth Rawson (review) (2018) (0)
Lucan: De Bello Civili: The capture of Corfinium (1992) (0)
Book Review:Dancing in Chains: The Stylistic Unity of the Comoedia Palliata John Wright (1977) (0)
Tensions of Julia’s youth: The poetry of pleasure and the legislation of morality (2006) (0)
1. Rustica Numina: The Country Gods of Italy and Their Reception in Roman Poetry (2009) (0)
Epilogue: The Statesman and the State in De Oratore and After (2004) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
III. Enemies Within (2016) (0)
8. Terence and the Familiarization of Comedy (2011) (0)
Old enough to be her father: Marriage to Agrippa (2006) (0)
Book Review:Virgil: "Georgics," Vol. 1: Books I-II; Vol. 2: Books III-IV Richard F. Thomas (1991) (0)
Oxford World's Classics: Virgil: Aeneid (2008) (0)
Putting Love in Its Place — A Tribute to Horace (2018) (0)
Naevius, Gaius, Bellum Punicum (2012) (0)
29. Statius’ Thebaid and the Genesis of Hatred (2011) (0)
Books Received (2017) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1975) (0)
Details of Frontispiece (1998) (0)
Lucan: De Bello Civili: Commentary (1992) (0)
22. Andromache’s Child in Euripides and Seneca (2011) (0)
Roman Literature (1987) (0)
Annaeus Seneca, Lucius (2), Seneca 'the Younger', Roman author and adviser of Nero, 49–65 CE (2016) (0)
Review of Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited by Pat Easterling and Edith Hall (2013) (0)
Res Pervolgatae: Words and their Manipulation in Standard Rhetorical Theory (2004) (0)
Wit and Humour as the Orator’s Combat Weapons (2004) (0)
Style and Substance: Cicero’s Rethinking of Elocutio (2004) (0)
Julia’s homes: A domestic interlude (2006) (0)
I. The Making of The Emperor (2016) (0)
Lucan: Civil War VIII ed. by R. Mayer (review) (1983) (0)
Ovid: Fasti Book IV: Introduction (1998) (0)
Erasmus as a Translator of the Classics by Erika Rummel (review) (2014) (0)
Oratory and Literature: The Spoken and the Written Word (2004) (0)
5. Gods in a Man-made Landscape: Priapus (2009) (0)
Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Discourse by Gregson Davis (review) (2018) (0)
Women in Antiquity: A Selective (and Subjective) Survey 1979–84 (2018) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Phthonos D. Konstan, N. K. Rutter (edd.): Envy, Spite and Jealousy. The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece . (Edinburgh Leventis Studies 2.) Pp. xiv + 305. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-7846-1603-9. (2005) (0)
The rise of Marcus Agrippa (2006) (0)
Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Purification in ancient Rome (2012) (0)
Into Action: The Orator as Public Figure (2004) (0)
Mankin, D. (ed.) 2011. Cicero De Oratore Book III. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 358 pp. Pr. £23.99. ISBN 9780521596572. (2012) (0)
The Orator and the Law (2004) (0)
H. VAN DER BLOM, CICERO'S ROLE MODELS: THE POLITICAL STRATEGY OF A NEWCOMER . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 388. isbn 9780199582938. £80.00. (2011) (0)
Julia’s parents and childhood (2006) (0)
Lucan: De Bello Civili: Select bibliography (1992) (0)
Index of Principal Passages Discussed (2009) (0)
Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (review) (2009) (0)
American Philological Association Texts and Commentaries Series: Cicero's Pro L. Murena Oratio (2013) (0)
Paideia Romana: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Ingo Gildenhard (review) (2022) (0)
Julia in the judgement of posterity (2006) (0)
Stefania Santelia: Charition Liberata (P. Oxy. 413). (π νακες, 2.) Pp. 119. Bari: Levante, 1991. Paper, L. 22,000. (1993) (0)
Propertius: Elegies Book IV (review) (2008) (0)
Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction by Karl Galinsky (review) (2018) (0)
A Neronian critic of Lucan (1992) (0)
(T.) Reinhardt, (M.) Winterbottom (edd.) Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria Book 2. Pp. lii + 435. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-0-19-926265-6. (2007) (0)
Cicero at 50 (2004) (0)
Major Events During Nero’s Lifetime (2016) (0)
De virtute ; Oratio funebris ; Encomium medicinae ; De puero ; Tyrannicida ; Ovid ; Prudentius ; Galen ; Lingua (1989) (0)
P. J. Davis, Ovid and Augustus: a political reading of Ovid’s erotic poems (London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., 2006), VIII + 183 pp. (2008) (0)
II. The New Emperor (2016) (0)
Book Review (2012) (0)
Introduction: Daughters and wives in Roman society in the late republic (2006) (0)
Ancient Narrative Volume 4 (2009) (0)
3. Ovid’s Fasti and the Local Gods of the City (2009) (0)
(M.) Gale (ed.) Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry. Genre, Tradition and Individuality . Pp. xxiv + 264. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2004. Cased. ISBN 0-9543845-6-3. (2006) (0)
Lucan: De Bello Civili: Cato's decision and Seneca's appraisal (1992) (0)
4. Ovidian Variations: From Friendly Flora to Lewd Salmacis and Angry Acheloüs (2009) (0)
Ovid's Fasti (1997) (0)
In Defence of Murena (2013) (0)
The fatal marriage (2006) (0)
Classics in Britain and America (2011) (0)
IX. The Emperor as Artist and Showman (2016) (0)
Rom am Ende der Republik (1998) (0)

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