J. Clayton Fant
I came to Akron in 1984 from Italy where I had been living and teaching off and on since 1979. Before that I held the junior faculty folding chair atWellesley College. I am a renegade philologist who still lovesteaching language and literature,but my publications are in Roman archaeology and epigraphy. My interest in the Roman marble trade began at St.Stephens's School in Rome with a 9th grade class in the topography of theancient city. I have done research and field work in Turkey, Greece, Tunisia and Egypt and am currently involved in projects in Pompeii (Italy) and Egypt.Distractionsfrom finishing a book called Marble and the Caesars are gardening, sailing, and our own Dioskouroi, Beckett, who joined us on August 23, 1999, and Emerson, born May 5, 2001.
Current project at Pompeii, "Taste and ostentation in White Marble at Roman Pompeii," funded by an American Philosophical Society research grant (read the illustrated grant proposal) and a University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship for 1999.
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