Nationality United States Name Michael J. | Alma mater Harvard University Institutions Brown University Fields Classics | |
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Born September 20, 1933 (age 90)
Springfield, Massachusetts ( 1933-09-20 ) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Humanness of Heroes, Virgil's epic designs, Virgil's Aeneid: Interpreta, Horace's Carmen saeculare, Poetic interplay Similar People Jan M Ziolkowski, Joseph P Farrell, Walter Burkert, Glen Bowersock | ||
Education Harvard University (1959) | ||
Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam (born September 20, 1933) is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, but has also studied literature written in many other languages. Putnam has been particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil's Aeneid. He is the son of politician and businessman Roger Putnam. Putnam received his B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. from Harvard. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1959 he taught at Smith College for a year. He then moved on to teach at Brown University and serving as W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and a professor of comparative literature for 48 years before retiring in 2008. He was awarded the 1970 Rome Prize.
He served as sole trustee of Lowell Observatory from 1967 to 1987.
Publications
In addition to the countless articles and reviews Michael C. J. Putnam has written, he has written many books.
He has also recently translated and edited Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004); Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006).