Frederick Ahl
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Frederick Ahl (born 1941) is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University[1] Ahl is a prominent scholar in classics in the United States today, having produced translations from both Ancient Greek and Latin works that have changed both the meaning and interpretation of ancient drama and literature.
In his book Sophocles' Oedipus, Ahl argues that the Oedipus of Sophocles' play is not actually guilty. Oedipus' conclusion that he is guilty is not actually confirmed by the information in the play itself and that the audience's belief in Oedipus' guilt is based on the audience's outside knowledge of the myth.[2]
He is currently working on a translation of Virgil's Aeneid.
[edit] Translations by Ahl
- Seneca's Phaedra ISBN 0801494338
- Seneca's Trojan Women Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986. ISBN 0801494311
- Seneca's Medea ISBN 080149432X
- Lucan: An Introduction (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ; V. 39) ISBN 0801408377
[edit] Criticism by Ahl
- Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets ISBN 0801417627
- Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self Conviction Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991. ISBN 0801425581 (hardcover), ISBN 0801499291 (paperback)
