# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-konstan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:12:40.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-konstan"
name: "David Konstan"
slug: "david-konstan"
description: "(Jay) David Konstan was an American classicist and academic, known for his work on notions of emotion and beauty in the ancient world, as well as others on Latin poetry, Epicurean philosophy, the Greek novel, ancient ideas of friendship, and other topics. A Professor of Classics at NYU, he previously spent three decades teaching at Brown University, where he was John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature."
tagline: "American classical philologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-11-01"
deathDate: "2024-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Konstan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد كونستان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Konstan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Konstan"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Konstan"
    title: "David Konstan"
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    title: "Констан, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump