John Vaio
John Vaio (born November 7, 1939 in Oakland , California ) is an American Graecist .
Vaio studied classics at Columbia College ( New York City ) from 1957 to 1961 , where he obtained his BA in 1961. From 1961 to 1963, he followed the course Litterae humaniores (ancient history, ancient and modern philosophy) at the University College of Oxford University . From 1963 to 1966 he completed graduate studies at Columbia University in Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures. In 1966 he received his Ph. D. with Studies in Aristophanes' Knights .
He was an instructor from 1964 to 1967 and an assistant professor at Columbia University from 1967 to 1971. In 1971 he moved to Hunter College ( CUNY ) as an assistant professor , where he was an associate professor without tenure from 1974 to 1975; In 1975 he moved again, this time as an associate professor with tenure, to the University of Illinois at Chicago , where he became a full professor in 2003. He has now retired.
Vaio works in particular on the Attic comedy ( Aristophanes ), the fables of Aesop and Babrio, and the history of classical philology in the 19th century (on the letters from Sir George Cornewall Lewis to Karl Otfried Müller ).
Fonts (selection)
- Teaching the English Science: The Letters of Sir George Cornewall Lewis to Karl Otfried Müller. Ed. with commentary in collaboration with WM Calder III and RS Smith. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2002.
- Babrius' Mythiambi: Notes on the Constitution of the Text (= Spudasmata Vol. 83). Olms, Hildesheim 2001.
- Studies in Aristophanes' Knights. Diss. Columbia University, New York 1966. See L'Année philoloqique 40 (1969) 20; Dissertation Abstracts 30 (1969) 1157.
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Illinois at Chicago (with photograph)
- CV at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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| SURNAME | Vaio, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Graecist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oakland , California |