UD German Professor Publishes Fairy Tale Reader for Beginning Learners
Eidt’s book retells the fairy tales plainly but authentically, bringing students into “the ongoing great conversation” of German as soon as possible.
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M.A. & Ph.D. in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
A.B. in Classics, Dartmouth College.
Studied Literae Humaniores at Oriel College, Oxford (Reynolds Fellowship).
University of Dallas (1998 to 2015): Assistant, then Associate Professor of Classics.
University of Pennsylvania (1988-1998): T.A., Instructor, Lecturer, in Classical Studies.
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina (1985):
Instructor of English: Graduate Seminar in W. H. Auden.
English Institute, Mar del Plata, Argentina (1985): Seminar in Robert Frost.
Interpolation in Thucydides , Leiden: E.J. Brill (Mnemosyne Supplement 150), 1995.
Reviews of book (the links to Dover and Wilson require access to jstor): K.J. Dover, Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 218-219;
Simon Hornblower, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7.1 (1996) 56-58 (online 95.12.11);
Alexander Kleinlogel in Gnomon 70 (2000) 481-492;
Pascal Payen in Revue de philologie 69 (1995) 344-346;
Renzo Tosi, Athenaeum 85 (1997) 664-668;
N.G. Wilson, Classical Review 111 (1997) 267-270.
"Greek and Roman Lyric", in The Prospect of Lyric, ed. Bainard and Louise Cowan, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Press (2010).
"Notiora Fallaciora. Exact Non-Allusive Echoes in Latin Verse" in Carl Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History: Tome XI, Collection Latomus 272 (Brussells, 2003) 121-156.
"Thucydides 7.63.3 on the Sailors 'Considered Athenian'", in Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World. Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham, ed. Vanessa Gorman and Eric Robinson (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002) 271-284.
"Thucydides, Lorenzo Valla and Vat. lat. 1801," Latomus 58 (1999) 885-889 (on the MS tradition of Valla's Latin translation of Thucydides).
"Gallus' Parthian Bow," Latomus 57 (Juillet-Septembre 1998) 578-588 (on Vergil and Parthia; on Vergil's self-repetitions).
"Notes on Carlos German Belli," Plaza: Revista de Literatura 12 (Spring 1987) 39-46 (On the neoclassicism of a contemporary Peruvian poet).
Verse translation of Vergil's Georgics with glossary & notes.
Index of Pindaric Images
Verse translations from Jacob Balde with notes
Edition of Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation of Thucydides .
Eidt’s book retells the fairy tales plainly but authentically, bringing students into “the ongoing great conversation” of German as soon as possible.
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