What is Elaine Fantham?
{{Infobox person | image = <!-- Only freely-licensed images may be used to depict living people. See [[WP:NONFREE]]. --> | image_size = 150px | |name = Elaine Fantham |||caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date|1933|5|25|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[England]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2016|7|11|1933|5|25|df=y}} |death_place = <!--n/a: living--> [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] |residence = |nationality = United Kingdom |other_names = |known_for = [[Classics]] expertise |education = [[University of Oxford]] |employer = |occupation = |home_town = |title = |salary = |networth = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Elaine Fantham''' (25 May 1933 &ndash; 11 July 2016) was a [[British people|British]] [[Classics|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 [[List of Presidents of the American Philological Association|president of the American Philological Association]] serving only in 2004.<ref>[http://apaclassics.org/images/uploads/documents/2005Program.pdf Program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330145706/http://apaclassics.org/images/uploads/documents/2005Program.pdf |date=2012-03-30 }} for the 2005 American Philological Association Meeting.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/tribute-r-elaine-fantham|title=Tribute to R. Elaine Fantham|date=13 July 2016|work=classicalstudies.org|access-date=13 July 2016}}</ref> Fantham was an expert on [[Latin literature]], especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion. She was classics commentator on [[NPR]]'s ''[[Weekend Edition]]''. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fantham, Elaine}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[C