Frederick Ahl

Frederick M. Ahl (born 1941) is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. He is known for his work in Greek and Roman epic and drama, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, as well as for translations of tragedy and Latin epic.

Quotes
We've suffered worse. God will grant us an end to these sufferings also. ... Take heart once again and dispel your fears and depression. Maybe the day'll come when even this will be joy to remember.
 * Crewmates, by now we are hardly strangers to evil and hardship.
 * Translation of Virgil's Aeneid (2007), Book I, lines 198–199 and 202–203