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Professor Fratantuono studied Classics at Holy Cross and Boston College before finishing a doctorate at Fordham under the direction of the late Professor Robert Carrubba with a thesis commentary on Book XI of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Professor Fratantuono is a Latinist with particular interests in Latin epic, lyric, and elegiac poetry, and in Roman history (especially of the Empire). His first book, Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil’s Aeneid ( Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007) is a comprehensive study of Virgil’s epic masterpiece. His second book, A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid XI ( Tournai, Belgium: Collection Latomus, forthcoming) is a revision of his Fordham dissertation. He has contracted a third book, Madness Transformed: A Reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and is the co-editor (with Professor Stephen Maddux of the University of Dallas) of a forthcoming critical edition (with translation and commentary) of the medieval Latin sermons of Peter the Lombard on the liturgical year. He has published numerous articles on Latin poetry.
Professor Fratantuono was appointed Assistant Professor at Ohio Wesleyan in 2005, and was named the William Francis Whitlock Professor of Latin in 2006. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. At Ohio Wesleyan, he teaches courses in ancient Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as his newly designed sequence on the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, a comprehensive, two-part introduction to the history, literature, and culture of ancient Rome from the founding through the death of Constantine the Great. He regularly offers a mythology course that focuses on the classical hero and heroine in the Trojan cycle, with readings from the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and selected Greek tragedies. His archaeology course is a chronological survey of the material remains, daily life and culture, and social history of ancient Rome, while his course on women in antiquity focuses on the lives of the famous (and not so famous) women of Rome from the prostitute who helped rear Romulus and Remus through the saint who found the Cross in Jerusalem. By arrangement, he offers a Directed Readings on the life of Alexander the Great and occasional other topics in Classics.
Professor Fratantuono also serves as academic advisor to the Delta Upsilon chapter of the Delta Delta Delta sorority along with Professor Dan Vogt of the Chemistry Department.
Besides his Ohio Wesleyan duties, Professor Fratantuono is a philatelist/numismatist who specializes in the postage stamps and coinage of Monaco. He regularly appraises collections of monégasque stamps and coins, travels to inspect and purchase major rarities, and consults collectors and investors.
Selected Articles:
1) “ Harum Unam: Dido’s Requiem for Pallas”. Latomus, 2004.
2) “ Posse Putes: Virgil’s Camilla, Ovid’s Atalanta”, in Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII, 2005.
3) “Diana in the Aeneid”. The New England Classical Journal, 2005.
4) “The Penultimate Books of Virgil’s Aeneid”. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, 2005.
5) “Trickery and Deceit in Aeneid XI”. Maia, 2005.
6) “ Tros Italusque: Arruns in the Aeneid”, in Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIII, 2006.
7) “ Ut Videre Camillam: The Nachleben of Reckless Heroism”. Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale, 2006.
8) “A Brief Reflection on the Gates of Sleep”. Latomus, 2007.
9) “ Velocem Potuit Domuisse Puellam: Propertius, Catullus, and Atalanta’s Race”, in Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIV, 2007.
10) “Virgil’s Camilla”. Athenaeum, 2007.
11) “ Laviniaque venit litora: Blushes, Bees, and Virgil’s Lavinia”. Maia , 2008.
12) “Chiastic Doom in the Aeneid ”. Submitted, Latomus , 2008.
Work in Progress
A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid XI
A Tacitus Reader
Madness Transformed: A Reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
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