• Date of Birth: August 1, 1934
  • Born City: Coney Island, Brooklyn
  • Born State/Country: NY
  • Parents: Charles & Nunzia D'angelo C.
  • Date of Death: December 12, 2005
  • Death City: New City
  • Death State/Country: NY
  • Married: 1965
  • Education:

    A.B., Fordham, 1956; A.M. 1957; A.M., Princeton, 1963; Ph.D., 1964.

  • Dissertation:

    “The Arrangement and Structure of Horace’s Epodes” (Princeton, 1964).

  • Professional Experience:

    Asst. prof. classics, Lake Forest College, 1964-6; City College, New York, 1966-7; asst. prof. Greek & Latin, Columbia, 1967-9; assoc. prof., 1969-74; prof. classics, Penn State, 1974-2000; grant, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, 1968-73; editor, Classical World Series, 1971-3; TAPA, 1974-6; ACLS grant, 1975; secy-treas., APA, 1973-6; president, CAAS, 1976-7.

  • Publications:

    Books:

    The Epodes of Horace: A Study in Poetic Arrangement (Studies in Classical Literature, 9) (The Hague-Paris: Mouton, 1969); Albertino MussatoThe Tragedy of Ecerinis (Studia Classica, 1). (trans. with others) (University Park: Pennsylvania State U. Press, 1972); Directory of College and University Classicists in the United States and Canada (University Park, PA: CAAS, 1973); Classics and the Classical Tradition: Essays Presented to Robert E. Dengler on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (ed., with Eugene N. Borza) (University Park: Pennsylvania State U. Press, 1973); (tr.,). Engelbert Kaempfer. Exotic Pleasures: Fascicle III, Curious Scientific and Medical Observations (trans. with introduction and commentary) Library of Renaissance Humanism (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996).

    Articles:

    “A Study of Horace's Eighth and Twelfth Epodes,” Latomus 24 (1965) 591-8; “The Structure of Horace’s Ninth Epode,” SO 41 (1966) 98-107; “The Curse on the Romans,” TAPA 97 (1966) 29-34; “The Technique of the Double Structure in Horace,” Mnemosyne, 4th Series, 20 (1967) 68-75; “Structural Symmetry in Horace, Epodes 16.41-66,” RhM Neue Folge, 110 (1967) 201-9; “The Rationale of Demea in Terence’s Adelphoe,” Dioniso 42 (1968) 16-26; “The Color of Dante’s Hair. Mediaeval Studies 33.1 (1971) 348-50; “The Western World’s First Detailed Treatise on Acupuncture: Willem Ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura” (with J.Z. Bowers). Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 29.4 (1974), 371-98; “The First Report of the Harvesting of Asafetida in Iran,” Agricultural History 53 (1979) 451-61; “Seventeenth-Century Latin Accounts of Acupuncture and Moxibustion,” Acta Orientalia 40 (1979) 205-27; “Dr. Willem Ten Rhyne on Dejima, Nagasaki, 1674-1676: Introduction of Acupuncture to the Western World,” Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research 5.2 (1980) 181-96; “Engelbert Kaempfer’s First Report of the Torpedo Fish of the Persian Gulf in the Late Seventeenth Century” (with J.Z. Bowers),  Journal of the History of Biology 15 (1982) 263-74; “The Structure of Horace, Odes 1.3: A Propempticon for Vergil,” AJP 105 (1984) 166-73; “Hypermestra's Speech in Horace, Odes 3.11.37-52,” CJ 84 (1988-9 113-16; “The Structure of Horace, Odes: 3,29, 1-16,” QUCC, N.S. 34 (1990) 113-19; “The Symmetry of Horace, Odes 3, 16, MH 47 (1990) 139-48; “The Preface to Juvencus’ Biblical Epic: A Structural Study,” AJP 114 (1993) 303-12; “Engelbert Kaempfer and the Myth of the Scythian Lamb, CW 87 (1993) 41-7; “Pastor H.G. Weland’s Latin Elegy for Engelbert Kaempfer,” Gesnerus: Swiss Journal for the History of Medicine and Science 51 (1994) 34-44; “Fear of Death in Horace, Odes 3.24.7,” CJ 91 (1996) 371-6; “The Structure of Horace's Ship of State: Odes 1, 14,” Latomus  62 (2003) 606-15; “Apollo and Leuconoe in Horace, Odes I, 11” (with L. Fratantuono), QUCC N.S. 74 (2003) 133-6; “The Correctness of the Manuscripts on Horace, Odes 3.20.8,” MH 62 (2005) 70-5; “Octavian’s Pursuit of a Swift Cleopatra: Horace, Odes 1.37.18,” Philologus 150 (2006) 178-82.

  • Sources:

    DAS 8th ed., 3:82; personal knowledge.

  • Author: Lee Fratantuono