Fernando Leme

Fernando is a Ph.D. candidate and studies the epithalamium (from Sappho to Claudian), focusing on its relationship to the epic genre, and how it depicts the emotions expected to be experienced at the wedding, as well as ideals of marital happiness, and profit that came with unions. Before that, he did a MA at the University of Durham where he studied Philostratus the Elder's adoption and revision of Platonic ideas in the Eikones, following an undergraduate degree at the University of Sao Paulo, where he is from. There, he was able to conduct research in Prudentius, and to focus on teaching Latin to children at the public school system in an innovative program that aims at bringing Classical studies back to the Brazilian school system, sixty years after they have been abolished. Fernando has published on Latin didactics, Prudentius, and Vergil, as well as English translations of Brazilian literature, and in his free time enjoys doing ballet and reading about the history of recorded opera.