Frederick M. Ahl (5 September 1941 – 27 January 2025) was a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University.
[2] He was active in theater in Ithaca, including Cornell Savoyards' Gilbert and Sullivan productions.
In addition to his several books, Ahl published articles on topics including ancient Greek music, Homeric narrative, rhetoric in antiquity, and Latin poetry of the Roman imperial period.
In 1985 Ahl published Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets.
[3] In 2007, Ahl published a translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English hexameter, which was republished in paperback in 2008.