Robert Lamberton

Professor Lamberton's research interests lie in the areas of early Greek epic and the history of its interpretation, the Greek literature of the Roman empire, and ancient education. He is currently working on a bilingual edition of the Fifth and Sixth Books of Proclus' Commentary on the Republic of Plato.

Publications

Homer the Theologian, Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, Berkeley 1986

Hesiod, Yale 1988

Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes, Princeton 1992

Plutarch, Yale 2001

Courses

The Greek Imagination

Research and Publication on the Graeco-Roman World

Greek language (all levels).