Correspondence about Friendship In The Classical World review

Auteurs

  • David Konstan U. of Brown

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.47661/afcl.v4i7.25

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Correspondence about Friendship In The Classical World review

Biographie de l'auteur

David Konstan, U. of Brown

Professor of Classics
Ph.D. 1967 (Greek and Latin), Columbia University; M.A. 1963 (Greek and Latin), Columbia University; B.A. 1961 (Mathematics), Columbia College.
David Konstan's research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy. In recent years, he has investigated the emotions and value concepts of classical Greece and Rome, and has written books on friendship, pity, the emotions, and forgiveness. He has also written on ancient physics and atomic theory, and on literary theory, and is currently working on a book on the ancient Greek conception of beauty, and on a verse translation of the two Senecan tragedies about Hercules.

Konstan's B.A. was in mathematics; in senior year of college, he began ancient Greek and Latin, and went on to obtain a doctorate in classics.  He taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1987, and at Brown University from 1987 to 2010, when he joined the faculty at NYU.

Konstan has held visiting appointments in New Zealand, Scotland, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, and Egypt, among other places.  He serves on the Editorial Boards of numerous journals around the world.  He has been President of the American Philological Association, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has been awarded NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships, among others.

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Numéro

Vol. 4 No 7 (2010): Amizade

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