Frederick M. Ahl

Frederick M. Ahl

Professor Frederick M. Ahl is an American classicist who is a tenured professor at Cornell University, as well as a member of Cornell's Department of Comparative Literature. Ahl's field is Greek and Roman epic and drama, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome.

Ahl studied classics at Cambridge University, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees, and at the University of Texas, where he received his doctorate. He taught at the Texas Military Institute, Trinity University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Utah before joining the Cornell faculty in 1971.

When not directing the classroom, he has played a major role in theater productions in Ithaca, including those of the Cornell Savoyards' Gilbert and Sullivan productions.

Ahl received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching from Cornell in 1977, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1989-90 and was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in 1996. He has served as director of Cornell Abroad in Greece.

elected publications

* "Lucan: An Introduction";
* "Seneca: Three Tragedies";
* "Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets" 1985 ISBN 9780801417627 ;
* "Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction";
* "Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration" (Cornell University Press, 1996;
* (with Hanna Roisman), "The Odyssey Re-Formed" (series (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) 1996;
* "Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca's Oedipus"
* (with Elaine Fantham) "The Aeneid" 2007.

Ahl has also published articles that range through ancient Greek music, Homeric narrative, rhetoric in Antiquity, and Latin poetry of the Roman imperial period, notably his long article "The rider and the horse: poetry and politics in Roman poetry from Horace to Statius", in Joseph Vogt, ed."Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt" (Rome: de Gruyter) 1972, pp 40-111.

He is the editor of the series of translations under the rubric "Masters of Latin Literature."

External links

* [http://www.arts.cornell.edu/classics/Faculty.html Cornell University: Classics Department]
* [http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June96/weissfellows.sm.html Cornell news release: 1996 Weiss Presidential Fellows, 7 June 1996]


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