Marco Fantuzzi
Visiting Professor
Classics (Columbia)
E-mail: mf2481@columbia.edu
Phone number: 1-212-854-5687
Room number: 612 Hamilton
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30-2:30pm
Marco Fantuzzi taught Ancient Greek Literature at the Universities of Trento and Florence, and currently teaches at the Univ. of Macerata and the Graduate School of Greek and Latin Philology of the Univers. of Florence. He has also been Visiting Scholar/Fellow of several English colleges (King's College, London; New Hall and Wolfson College, Cambridge UK) and of the Dept. of Classics of the Univ. of Cincinnati, and is a member of the board of Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Seminari romani di cultura greca, and Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici.
His main professional interests are: Greek Drama (especially Tragedy and New Comedy); Hellenistic Poetry; Homer; Greek Lyric and Elegiac Poetry; Greek and Latin Metrics; Ancient Literary Criticism and Scholarship. Among his publications: Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (with R. Hunter), Cambridge 2004; Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio: diacronie della dizione epica, Rome 1988; Bionis Smyrnaei Adonidis epitaphium, Liverpool 1985; Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, ed. (with T. Papanghelis) Leiden 2006; Struttura e storia dell'esametro greco, ed. (with R. Pretagostini) Rome 1995-1996.
He is now concluding a commented ed. of the Rhesus ascribed to Euripides (in English) and of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum (in Italian).