Elaine Fantham
| Elaine Fantham | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 May 1933 Liverpool, England |
| Died | 11 July 2016 (aged 83) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | British-Canadian |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Classics expertise |
Elaine Fantham (née Crosthwaite, 25 May 1933 – 11 July 2016) was a British-Canadian classicist. 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 was an expert on Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion and the social history of Roman women. She was classics commentator on NPR's Weekend Edition. Fantham is known for the wide range and accessibility of her scholarship. She is considered by fellow experts in the field to be one of the great Latinists of her generation. Much of her work was concerned with the intersection of literature and Greek and Roman history.
Elaine Fantham was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Literae Humaniores and received a first class degree in 1954. She completed an Master's degree at the University of Oxford in 1957 and held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool 1956-58. She completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool in 1965. Her doctorate was entitled 'A Commentary on the Curculio of Plautus', and was examined by R. B. Austin and O. Skutsch.
Fantham taught in a secondary school for girls in St Andrews, Scotland, for seven years, and briefly at the University of St Andrews. She moved to Indiana University Bloomington, and was a Visiting Lecturer for two years (1966–68). With two children and her husband, Elaine Fantham moved to Toronto where she taught at the University of Toronto for eighteen years (1968–86). In 1983 she was a Visiting Professor at Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. In 1986 she was appointed Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University, a position which she held until her retirement in 2000.
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