Angelo O Mercado
Part of what attracted Angelo Mercado as a college freshman to Classical Latin was the language鈥檚 antiquity. It didn鈥檛 take long for Angelo to fall in love with its sound and rhythm. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from different languages, embracing Greek and languages of ancient Italy related to Latin, as well as other languages in the Indo-European family. His life鈥檚 pursuit thus became the description of ancient poetry as products of formal systems that descend from a common ancestor, aspects of which can be recovered in light of linguistic theory and methodology.
Professor Mercado is best known for his work on Old Latin and related Italic meters. Recently, he has published series of papers on meter in Italic prayer texts and on the role of word accent in Latin meters adapted from Greek, which are based on syllable duration.
As a teacher, Professor Mercado thrives on introducing students to ancient language and epic. He regularly teaches Tutorial on epic, 鈥淎ncient Greek World鈥 (HUM-101), elementary鈥搃ntermediate Latin (LAT-103 and 222), Vergil (LAT-323), and Indo-European language and culture (CLS|LIN-270). He has also taught mythology (CLS|GLS-242), gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Italy (CLS-395), and Plautus in Latin (LAT-395).
Education and Degrees
- Ph.D. in , 2006, University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A. in , 1998, University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A. in , 1996, Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA)
- Minor in Spanish
- High School Diploma, 1992, (San Jose, CA)
Selected Publications
Representative:
- Italic Verse: A Study of the Poetic Remains of Old Latin, Faliscan, and Sabellic. 145. Innsbruck: Institut f眉r Sprachen und Literaturen der Universit盲t Innsbruck, 2012.
- Co-editor with Dieter Gunkel, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Kazuhiko Yoshida. . Ann Arbor: Beech Stave, 2018.
- 鈥淩hythm and Responsion in Some Italic Prayers.鈥 In David M. Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison, and Brent Vine, eds., , 161鈥86. Bremen: Hempen, 2016.
- 鈥淲ord Stress in the Early Latin Hexameter.鈥 In Satoko Hisatsugi, ed., , 85鈥102. Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft 19. Hamburg: Baar, 2021.
- . Lecture given via Zoom, to the Cornell University Department of Classics.
- 鈥淥n the Problem of Homeric Greek 峒渭蠁喂蠁慰蟻蔚蠉蟼.鈥 In Gunkel, Jamison, Mercado, and Yoshida 2018, 242鈥55.
- 鈥溑犇乭s at the Pass of Thermopylae.鈥 In Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, and Michael Weiss, eds., , 250鈥63. Ann Arbor: Beech Stave, 2016.
- With Joseph F. Eska. Historische Sprachforschung 124 (2011): 227鈥38.
In the News
- Bellarmine News, 鈥溾 (Loyola Marymount University, April 4, 2016)