About the Authors

Frederic M. Wheelock

Frederic M. Wheelock (1902-1987) received the A.B., A.M, and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. His long and distinguished teaching career included appointments at Haverford College, Harvard University, the College of the City of New York, Brooklyn College, Cazenovia Junior College (where he served as Dean), the Darrow School for Boys (New Lebanon, NY), the University of Toledo (from which he retired as full Professor in 1968), and a visiting professorship at Florida Presbyterian (now Eckerd) College.

He published a number of articles and reviews in the fields of textual criticism, palaeography, and the study of Latin; in addition to Wheelock’s Latin (previously titled Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors), his books include Latin Literature: A Book of Readings and Quintilian as Educator (trans. H. E. Butler; introd. and notes by Prof. Wheelock). Professor Wheelock was a member of the American Classical League, the American Philological Association, and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

BIOGRAPHY (reprinted courtesy of Professor Ward Briggs and The Classical Outlook) [PDF File]

Richard A. LaFleur

Richard A. LaFleur received the B.A. and M.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia and the Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke. He has taught since 1972 at the University of Georgia, where he served for 21 years as head of one of the largest Classics programs in North America and has held since 1998 the chair of Franklin Professor of Classics.

He has numerous publications in Latin language, literature, and pedagogy, including the books The Teaching of Latin in American Schools: A Profession in Crisis, Latin Poetry for the Beginning Student, Love and Transformation: An Ovid Reader, Latin for the 21st Century: From Concept to Classroom, Wheelock's Latin (revised 5th and 6th eds.), Wheelock's Latin Reader (revised 2nd ed.), (with Paul Comeau) Workbook for Wheelock's Latin (revised 3rd ed.), and (with Alexander G. McKay) A Song of War: Readings from Vergil's Aeneid.

Professor LaFleur also served as Editor of The Classical Outlook (1979–2003) and is a past President of the American Classical League (1984–1986). He has been recipient of more than one million dollars in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other funding agencies, and of numerous state, regional, and national awards for teaching and professional service, including, in 1984, the American Philological Association's award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics.

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Articles about Richard LaFleur that are online:

Classics head appointed to Franklin Professorship 

Distance Education Courses 

Latin for the 21st Century

Southworks Festival 

HarperCollins "About the Author"

Paul T. Comeau

Paul T. Comeau studied Latin, Classical Greek, and French for more than four years at Joliette Seminary in Quebec. Part of a long military career, from which he retired in 1975, was spent teaching French and serving as the advisor for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Assumption College, an M.A. in French Language and Literature and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, both from Princeton University.

From 1975 to 1989, as Professor of French and Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at New Mexico State University, he established a two-year Latin program and taught that language for nine years, along with courses in French language, literature, and culture. A number of his articles have appeared in French literary journals, and his publications include a book of literary history, Diehards and Innovators, the French Romantic Struggle: 1800-1830 (1988).

He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Canadian Embassy. Now retired as Professor Emeritus of French, he is past President of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French and a Life Member of the Modern Language Association of America.