Fred R. Porta

Dr. Porta, a specialist in Greek poetry and religion, ably represented the Classics at Willamette in the year after Prof. Usher's departure (2000-2001). Among other things, he taught an intermediate Latin prose class on Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Metamorphoses.

Currently, he is a Classics lecturer at Stanford University, where he has taught in the Introduction to the Humanities Program, but also Sanskrit, Old Irish, Mycenaean Greek, Old Persian, Khotanese, and Sogdian.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University

Select Publications

Greek Ritual Utterances and the Liturgical Style. Diss. Harvard, 1999.