In Memoriam: Elaine Fantham

Published Sept. 2, 2016

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Robert Matthews

Elaine Fantham, a classics professor for 13 years, died July 11 in Toronto. She was 83. Fantham’s research interests included Roman comedy and rhetoric, Latin epic from Virgil to Statius, Roman religion, and the social history of Roman women. She also became a popular commentator on NPR’s “Weekend Edition.”

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