Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam was an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, who also studied literature written in other languages. Putnam was particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil's Aeneid, and considered a founding member of the Harvard School, which interpreted the poem as containing messages of dissent against the emperor Augustus and his imperialistic ideology.
- Occupation
- classical philologist, university teacher
- Position held
- President of the Society for Classical Studies
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 20, 1933
