Frederick Ahl
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Professor of classics and comparative literature
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Frederick Ahlliterature Degrees
Literature
#2160
World Rank
#3941
Historical Rank
#1023
USA Rank
Philology
#47
World Rank
#165
Historical Rank
#6
USA Rank
Classical Studies
#157
World Rank
#319
Historical Rank
#58
USA Rank

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Why Is Frederick Ahl Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederick M. Ahl is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. He is known for his work in Greek and Roman epic and drama, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, as well as for translations of tragedy and Latin epic.
Frederick Ahl's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Art of Safe Criticism in Greece and Rome (1984) (279)
- Lucan: An Introduction (1977) (140)
- Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets (1989) (113)
- The Odyssey re-formed (1996) (61)
- The Rider and the Horse: Politics and Power in Roman Poetry from Horace to Statius (1984) (46)
- Lucan's De Incendio Urbis, Epistulae ex Campania and Nero's Ban (1971) (39)
- Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction (1991) (25)
- Amber, Avallon, and Apollo's Singing Swan (1982) (24)
- P. Papinius Statius, Silvae book II : a commentary (1986) (15)
- Homer, Vergil, and Complex Narrative Structures in Latin Epic: An Essay (1989) (13)
- Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' "Oedipus Tyrannus" and Seneca's "Oedipus" (2008) (8)
- Spartacus, Exodus, and Dalton Trumbo: Managing Ideologies of War (2008) (3)
- Wordplay and Apparent Fiction in the Odyssey (2002) (3)
- Cadmus and the Palm-Leaf Tablets (1967) (2)
- [Review] History of Ovid / Ronald Syme (1982) (1)
- 14 Transgressing Boundaries of the Unthinkable: Sophocles, Ovid, Vergil, Seneca, and Homer Refracted in Statius’ Thebaid (2015) (1)
- Harmonia Mundi Musica E Filosofia Nell'antichità = Music and Philosophy in the Ancient World (1991) (1)
- Making Poets Serve the Established Order: Editing for Content in Sophocles, Virgil, and W. S. Gilbert (2012) (1)
- An Anonymous Namer: (2020) (0)
- Seneca in performance (2000) (0)
- Chaucer’s Englishing of Latin Wordplay (2009) (0)
- Moving Labyrinths: Virgil’s Art of Multiple Narrative (2018) (0)
- The Cambridge History of Classical Literature ed. by E. J. Kenney, W.V. Clausen (review) (2018) (0)
- Virgil: Aeneid VI (1994) (0)
- Book Review:Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition Richard F. Thomas (1985) (0)
- The hand of God: Diego Maradona and the divine nature of cheating in Classical Antiquity (2015) (0)
- Humour, chance, and choices: human and divine in the Aeneid (2012) (0)
- Aeneas and Octavian: The Sharing of Epic Identity (2018) (0)
- Oxford World's Classics: Virgil: Aeneid (2008) (0)
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