research overview
- Dr. Fredricksmeyer's articles have been cited in 36 academic publications in six languages (as of January 2024). His articles and abstracts have been published in Transactions of the American Philological Association, American Journal of Philology, Latomus: Revue d’Études Latines, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Classical Association of the Midwest and South, and Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. His research has focused on Archaic Greek epic poetry, Archaic Greek lyric poetry, Roman comedy, Greek and Roman mythology and religion, and film. October 2023, he was invited to give a talk on the violence of Odysseus and its relation to the technology and ethics of the Homeric world, at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, Turkey. The title of the talk was “Odysseus and the Cyclops: Cannibalism and the Unflinching Truth about a Violent Hero.”