A.B. Harvard, 1956; M.A. Northwestern, 1965; Ph.D., 1968.

Lat. Teacher, Berkshire School (Sheffield, MA), 1956-8; founder & teacher, Sterling School (Craftsbury Common, VT), 1958-63; asst. prof. to prof. Penn State, 1963-86; prof. classics, University of California, Irvine, 1986-2001; ed. CW, 1974-8; pres. CAAS, 1979-80. 

“Agathos-Kakos: A Study of Social Attitudes in Ancient Greece” (Northwestern, 1968).    

“A Note on aristos as a Class Term,” Philologus 113 (1969) 268-70; “Simonides, Fr. 4D and P. Oxy. 2432,” TAPA 100 (1969) 71-95; “The Foundation Legends of Rome. An Example of Dynamic Process,” CW 64 (1970) 109-114; “Changes and Shifts in the Meaning of Demos in the Literature of the Archaic Period,” PP 25 (1970) 381-95; “Archilochus, Strabo and the Lelantine War,” TAPA 101 (1970) 131-42; “Homer's Agamemnon,” CW 65 (1971) 109-115; “The Tradition of Anti-Aristocratic Thought in Early Greek Poetry,” Historia 22 (1973) 145-154; “The Origin of καλος κἀγαθός,” AJP 94 (1973) 365-74; “Towards a Better Understanding of Ancient Societies,” Helios 4 (1976) 3-15; “The Charge at Marathon. Herodotus 6.112,” with J. Thompson CJ 71 (1976) 339-43; “The Classical World Bibliography of Vergil,” ed. with a new intro., Garland Reference Library of the Humanities XCVI (New York: Garland Publishing, 1978). REV.: CW LXXIII 1979 201 Johnson; The Classical World Bibliography of Greek Drama and Poetry, ed., Garland Reference Library of the Humanities XCIII (New York: Garland Publishing, 1978). REV.: CW LXXIII 1979-1980 256 Bernstein; The Classical World Bibliography of Roman Drama and Poetry and Ancient Fiction, ed. with a new intro., Garland Reference Library of the Humanities XCVII (New York: Garland Publishing, 1978); The Classical World Bibliography of Philosophy, Religion, and Rhetoric, ed. with a new intro., Garland Reference Library of the Humanities XCV (New York: Garland Publishing, 1978); “Social Vocabulary and Its Relationship to Political Propaganda in Fifth-Century Athens,” QUCC 27 (1978) 95-111; “The Charge at Marathon Again,” with J. Thompson CW 72 (1979) 419-20; “The Structure of Authority in the Iliad,” Arethusa 12 (1979) 51-70; The Aristocratic Ideal in Ancient Greece. Attitudes of Superiority from Homer to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. (Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1980). REVS.: REG XCV 1982 181 Vernière ; CO LX 1983 133 Holt ; CR XXXIII 1983 147 Burn; “Scale, Value, and Function in the Homeric Economy,” AJAH 6 (1981) 101-17; “Reciprocities in Homer,” CW 75 (1982) 137-75; “The Politics of Generosity in Homer,” Helios 9 (1982) 1-15; “The Social Groups of Dark Age Greece,” CP 80 (1985) 293-308; “Pistos philos hetairos,” in Theognis of Megara. Poetry and the Polis, ed. T.J. Figueira & G. Nagy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1985) 223-44; “Duelling with Gifts in the Iliad. What the Audience Knew,” AAPA (1989) 114; “The Unequal Exchange between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift-Economy,” Phoenix 43 (1989) 1-15; “Homeric τέμενος and the Land Economy of the Dark Age,” MH 46 (1989) 129-45; “The Pre-State Community in Greece,” SO 64 (1989) 5-29; “The Village Community of Ancient Greece: Neolithic, Bronze and Dark Ages,” with Carol G. Thomas, SMEA 31 (1993) 61-71; “Duelling with Gifts in the Iliad: As the Audience Saw It,” Colby Quarterly 29 (1993) 155-72; “Chief and Followers in Pre-State Greece,” in From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies, ed. Colin M. Duncan & David W. Tandy (Montreal & New York: Black Rose Books, 1994) 34-51; “The Homeric Economy,” in A New Companion to Homer, ed. Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell, updated ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1997) 649-667; “The Relations of Power in the Pre-State and Early State Polities,” in The Development of the polis in Archaic Greece, ed. Lynette G. Mitchell (London: Routledge, 1997) 39-48; “Political Reciprocity in Dark Age Greece: Odysseus and his Hetairoi,” in Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, ed. Christopher Gill, Norman Postlethwaite, & Richard Seaford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) 51-71; The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers (Wauconda (IL): Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999). REVS.: Emerita 2001 69 (2): 378-380 Francisco R. Adrados | Mnemosyne 2001 Ser. 4 54 (3): 368-371 E. Ch. L. Van der Vliet | AAHG 2004 57 (3-4): 254 Christoph Ulf; “Achilles the Ally,” Arethusa 35 (2002) 155-72; “Kin-Groups in the Homeric Epics,” CW 101 (2007-8) 29-39.   

Jennifer Roberts, CW 99 (2006) 445; DAS 8:3 (1982) 133.    

Image credit: Berkshire School Trail Yearbook 1958