Education
PhD, Classics, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., English, University of California, Berkeley
A.B., English, Harvard College
Academic Appointments
2004-present - Associate Professor of Classics, University of Dallas
1979-2004 - Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Dallas
1975-78 - Lecturer in Classics, University of California at Berkeley
1970-74 - Instructor in Classics, Ohio State University
Professional Appointments (University of Dallas)
2000-01, 2012-2024 - Chairman, Classics Department
2001-2013 - Dean, Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
2001-2013 - Director, Institute of Philosophic Studies
1985-92, 1994-2013 - Director, Graduate Program in Humanities
1987-92 - Director, Classics Program
Recent Courses
Second Year Greek (CLG 2315)
Homer (CLG 3327)
Ovid: The Metamorphoses (CLL 3V50)
Advanced Latin and Grammar Composition (CLL 3324)
Cicero De Republica (CLL 3332)
Second-Year Greek (CLG 2315)
Senior Project (CLG 4342 & CLL 4342)
Roman Lyric: Vergil & Horace (CLL 3326)
Second-Year Latin II (CLL 2312)
Greek Poetry (CLG 3V50)
Greek Historians: Thucydides (CLG 3325)
Greek Historians: Herodotus (CLG 3325)
Homer (CLG 3327)
Advanced Greek Grammar and Composition (CLG 3324)
Latin Grammar Review (CLL 1305)
Greek Epic and Tragedy, Herodotus, Plato; Latin Poetry (Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Juvenal), Cicero
Articles
"Some Principles at Work in Hesiod's Theogony." Expositions, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Vol.6, No. 1 (2012), 90-97. Expositions is a journal published by the Villanova Center for Liberal Education. (The Summer 2012 issue of Expositions can be found here.)
"The Noose of Words in Herodotus' Persians and Euripides' Hippolytus," a talk given at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, December 1, 2007
"Catullus 65: Grief and Poetry," Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, v.XIII, Editions Latomus; Brussels (2006) 87-96
"Conscience and Co-Knowledge in Hamlet and Classical Antiquity," a talk given at the annual meeting of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, in Vancouver, April 8, 2005
"Catullus 11: a Study in Perspective," Latomus, Revue d'Études Latines 46 (l987) 510-526
"Plato's Greater Hippias," a translation with notes and an interpretive essay included in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, Thomas L. Pangle (ed.), Cornell U.P., l987
"Juvenal's Satire 4: Poetic Uses of Indirection," California Studies in Classical Antiquity 12 (1979) 283-303
Talks and Addresses
The Noose of Words in Herodotus' Persians and Euripides' Hippolytus,
Conscience and Co-Knowledge in Hamlet and Classical Antiquity,
"Why We Study Foreign Languages" [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 160.47 KB]