President
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Born: August 30, 1934
Worcester, Massachusetts
Married, two children

B.A. Hamilton College, 1956
Ph.D. in Classics, Princeton University, 1961

Phi Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, ACLS and NEH fellowships
Fulbright Fellow, University College, Oxford, 1956-57
Howard Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, 1986
L.H.D. Hamilton College, 1991, Knox College, 1993
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 1996

Instructor, University of Michigan, 1960-63
Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1963-64
Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1964-70
Associate Professor, Princeton University, 1970-72
Professor, Princeton University, 1972-89
Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, 1978-89
Professor of Classics, Duke University, 1989-2000
Director, National Humanities Center, 1989-2003
President, Teagle Foundation, Inc., 2003-

Summer sessions at the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado, the Breadloaf School of English

Visiting Special Research Fellow, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1977-78

Fulbright Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1982

Visitor, The Institute for Advanced Study, 1985-86

Chairman, Department of Classics, 1972-77
Chairman, Committee on Hellenic Studies, 1979-85
Chairman, Council of the Humanities, 1982-89

American Philological Association: Chairman of the Committee on the State of Classical Studies, 1969-77; Chairman of the Nominating Committee, 1975-77; Director, 1980-83; President-Elect, 1986-87; President, 1987-88

Harvard University: Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Classics, 1976-84; Chairman, 1979-84; Committee to Visit the Memorial Church, 1995

Yale University: University Council Committee on Literature, 1979-83

American School of Classical Studies in Athens: Managing Committee, 1973-89; Executive Committee, 1976, 1980, 1985-89

University on North Carolina at Asheville; Board of Visitors, 1990-92

National Humanities Alliance: Board of Directors, 1991-94

Alumni Trustee, Princeton University, 1993-97

Board of Directors, North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, 1994-

Trustee, Athens College, 1995-1998

Trustee, Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-

Greek Orations (University of Michigan Press, 1996), reissued with a new preface, Waveland Press, 1987

Theopompus and Fifth Century Athens (Harvard Press for the Center of Hellenic Studies, 1968)

The New Politicians of Fifth Century Athens (Princeton University Press, 1971), reissued, Hackett Publishing Company, 1992

Thucydides (Princeton University Press, 1984) issued in a paperback edition, 1987

(With Carolyn L. Connor) The Life and Miracles of Saint Luke of Steiris (Hellenic College Press, 1994)

Charinus’ Megarean Decree, American Journal of Philology 58 (1962): 25-246.

Two Notes on Diopeithes the Seer, Classical Philology 58 (1963):116-118

Theopompus’ Treatment of Cimon, Greek, Roman and Bizantine Studies 4(1963): 107-114

Vim Quandam Incredibilem, A Tradition Concerning the Oratory of Pericles, Classica et Mediacvalie, 23 (1963) 23-33

History Without Heroes: Theopompus’ Treatment of Philip of Macedon, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 8 (1967) 133-153

Two Notes on Cimon, Transactions of the American Philological Association, 98 (1967) 67-75

(With J.J. Keaney) Throphrastus on the End of Ostracism, American Journal of Philology, 90 (1969) 313-319

The Theseus Myth in Classical Athens, Quest for Theseus (London, 1970) 143- 174

Charinus’ Megarean Decree Again, Revue des Etudes Grecques, 83 (1970) 305-308

Lycomedes Against Themistocles, Historia (1972) 569-574

The Thenian Council: Method and Focus in Some Recent Scholarship, Classical Journal 70 (1974) 32-40

Homo Lucrans? Arion N.S.I. (1974) 731-739

Nicias the Cretan? American Journal of Ancient History, 1 (1976) 61-64

Tyrannis Polis in J. D’Arms and J. Eadie, ed., Ancient and Modern Essays in Honor of G.F. Else (Ann Arbor, 1977) 95-109

A Post-Modernist Thucydides? Classical Journal 72 (1977) 289

Thucydides 2.65.12, Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Berlin, 1979) 269-71

Pausanian 3.14.1: A Sidelight on Spartan History, Transactions of the American Philological Association, 109 (1979) 71-78

Thucydides Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome Vol. I, edited by T.J. Luce (New York, 1982) 267-289

The Razing of the House in Greek Society, Transactions of the American Philological Association, 115 (1985) 79-102

Narrative Discourse in Thucydides, The Greek Historians (Papers presented to A.E. Raubitschek) (Stanford, 1985) 1-17

Historical Writing in the Fourth Century B.C. and in the Hellenistic Period, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory edited by P.E. Easterling (Cambridge, 1989) 46- 59

Commentary on the Conference: Herodotus and the Invention of History Arethusa 20 (1987) 155-262

Tribes, Festivals and Processions: Civic Ceremonial and Political Manipulation in Arachaic Greece, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 107 (1987) 40-50

Sacred and Secular, Ancient Society (1987) 161-188

Early Greek Land Warfare as Symbolic Expression, Past and Present, 119 (May 1988) 3-29

Seized by the Nymphs Classical Antiquity, 7 (1988) 155-189

The City Dionysia and Athenian Democracy, Classica et Mediaevalia, 40 (1989) 7-32

The Other 399: Religion and the Trial of Socrates, Georgica: Greek Studies in Honor of George Cawkwell: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, Sup. 58 (1991) 49-56

Polarization in Thucydides, Hegemonic Rivalry from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age, edited by Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S. Strauss (Boulder 1991) 53-69

The Ionian Era of Athenian Civic Identity, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 137, No. 2 (1993) 194-206

The Problem of Athenian Civic Identity Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology, edited by Alan L. Boegehold and Adele C. Scafuro (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 34-44

The Histor in History, Nomodeiktes (Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald), edd. Ralph M. Rosen and Joseph Farrell (The University of Michigan Press, 1994), 3-15

Theses and his City, Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World (Boreas 24, Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilization), edited by P. Hellstrom and B. Alroth (Uppsala, 1996), 115-120

Festival and Democracy Democratie athenienne et culture, ed. M. Sakellariou (The Academy of Athens, Athens, 1996), 79-89

“Reading Thucydides in the Post-Cold War World” Acta: First Panhellenic and International Conference on Ancient Greek Literature, Hellenic Society of Humanistic Studies, edited by J.Th.A. Papademetriou, Athens 1997), 479-93

The New Classical Humanities and the Old, Classical Journal (1986) 337-347

Humanistic Research, The Humanities in the University, ACLS Occasional Paper no. 6, New York 1988, 21-24

After Smashing the Wedgwood, The American Scholar, Autumn 1989, 533-541

Why Were We Surprised? The American Scholar, Spring 1991, 175-184

Leadership: A View from the Fifth Century B.C. Humanitas 16, 2 (1991-92) 19-27

Scholarship and Technology in Classical Studies, Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities, edited by May Katzen (British Library, 1992) 52-62

Introduction to the Everyman edition of Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley (J.M. Dent, London, 1993)

The Future of the American University, The Modern University: Its Present Status and Future Prospects (Papers from the Sixth Kenan Convocation, April 22-24, 1993)

Participatory vs. Representative Democracy, A Challenge to Democracy, Transcripts from the Symposium held April 22-23, 1994) (Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, Washington, D.C., 1994)

“Moral Knowledge in the Modern University” Ideas, Volume 6, Number One (1999) 56-67

“Do Centers for Advanced Study Deserve a History?” Ideas, Volume 9, Number One (2002) 2-7