Herbert W. Benario
Herbert W. Benario (born July 21, 1929 in New York ) is an American classical philologist .
Life
Benario studied at City College of New York ( BA 1948), Columbia University ( MA 1949) and Johns Hopkins University ( Ph.D. 1951). From 1951 to 1953 he served in the US Army in the Korean War . He then stayed in Italy and Germany for research and educational purposes.
In 1960, Benario was appointed Assistant Professor of Classics at Emory University in Atlanta , Georgia . He was later appointed full professor . In 1987 he retired.
In Benario's time, Classical Studies in Emory was only possible up to a Bachelor's degree (around 1970 there was also a Master’s degree for a short time). Important philologists and historians received their first training in Emory and continued their studies at other universities.
Benario is a member of the American Philological Association (since 1950), the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and the Vergilian Society of America , on whose boards he served for several years.
His research interests include Roman historiography and rhetoric of the imperial era, as well as the history of classical philology in the United States.
Fonts (selection)
- The Sources of Pseudo-Asconius . Baltimore 1951, OCLC 30141364 (Dissertation Johns Hopkins University Baltimore 1951, 231 pages).
- Tacitus: Agricola, Germany, Dialogue on Orators , translated, with an introduction and notes, by Herbert W. Benario, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis 1967. Reprint: Hackett, Indianapolis 2006, ISBN 0-87220-812-5 .
- An Introduction to Tacitus. The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA 1975, ISBN 0-8203-0361-5 .
- A Commentary on the Vita Hadriani in the Historia Augusta . Scholars Press, Chico, CA 1980, ISBN 0-89130-391-X .
- Tacitus, Annals 11 and 12 (= The Classical World Special Series , Volume 3). University Press of America, Lanham 1983, ISBN 0-8191-3481-3 .
- The Classical Association of the Middle West and South. A History of the First Eighty Years . Classical association of middle west and south, Greenville, SC 1989, OCLC 875954385
- Editing
- with Ward W. Briggs : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve: An American Classicist . Baltimore 1986, ISBN 0-8018-3117-2 .
- with Ward W. Briggs: The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve . Baltimore 1987, ISBN 978-0-8018-2876-8 .
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- Author information (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benario, Herbert W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benario, Herbert; Benario, Herbert William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |