Frederick Ahl
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Frederick Ahl (born 1941) is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University[1]
In his book Sophocles' Oedipus (1991), 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 spent the last years working on a translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English hexameter. The text was first published in 2007, and a second paperback edition is forthcoming in Summer 2008.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Translations
- Lucan: An Introduction (1975) ISBN 0801408377
- Phaedra (1986) ISBN 0801494338
- Trojan Women (1986) ISBN 0801494311
- Medea (1986) ISBN 080149432X
- Aeneid (2007) ISBN 0192832069
[edit] Criticism
- Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets (1985) ISBN 0801417627
- Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self Conviction (1991) ISBN 0801425581 (hardcover), ISBN 0801499291 (paperback)
