Bob Kaster

Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin

Princeton University

Fall 2009

Monday & Wednesday 1-2 pm, and by appointment.

Fall 2009

LAT101 Beginner's Latin

LAT330 Cicero

Background

B.A. Dartmouth College ’69, M.A. Harvard University ’71, Ph.D. Harvard University ’75.

Professor Kaster has taught and written mainly in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, and Roman ethics.

His annotated translation of Seneca's De ira and De clementia is due to appear in the 'complete works of Seneca' project of The University of Chicago Press. His current major project is an edition of Macrobius's Saturnalia for the Loeb Classical Library, which will be followed by an edition for the Oxford Classical Texts series. His commentary on Cicero's Pro Sestio appeared in Summer 2006

He was president of the American Philological Association in 1996 and will be Vice President for Program through 2010.

His book Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity was awarded the Goodwin Award of Merit in 1991. In May 2007 he received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the Humanities.

Books & Articles

• Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity (Berkeley 1988)
• The Tradition of the Text of the “Aeneid” in the Ninth Century (New York 1991)
• Studies on the Text of Suetonius "De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus" (Atlanta 1992)
• Suetonius: "De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus" (text, translation, commentary: Oxford 1995)
• Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (Oxford 2005)
• Cicero: The Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius (Oxford 2006).

Numerous articles and reviews on Roman education, literature, and cultural psychology: an archive of downloadable post-prints in PDF format is available through Professor Kaster's personal website.

Personal Web Site: http://www.princeton.edu/~kaster