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Robert Lamberton
Title:Professor of Classics
Degree:PHD, Yale University
BA, Harvard University
Dept:Classics
Office:January Hall 205
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-8587
E-mail:rdlamber@wustl.edu

Courses
Intensive Beginning Greek I and II; Not Members of this Club: Women and Slaves in the Greco-Roman World; The Epic Tradition; The Greek Imagination; The Ancient Novel

Research Interests
Greek epic and the history of its interpretation; Ancient hermeneutics; Literary criticism and theory - ancient and modern; Late antiquity

Selected Publications:

Plutarch, New Haven: Yale University Press (Hermes Books), 2001.

Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer, J.J. Keaney and Robert Lamberton, Eds., American Philological Association, American Classical Studies No. 40. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.

Hesiod, New Haven: Yale University Press (Hermes Books), 1988.

Homer the Theologian, Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, No. 9. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1986.

Porphyry on the Cave of the Nymphs, trans. with intro. and notes by Robert D. Lamberton. Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1983.