Leonardo Taran

Leonardo Tarán (born February 22, 1933 in Galarza, Argentina ) is an American classical philologist .

Life

The son of Miguel and Liuba Taran came to the United States in 1958 and was naturalized in 1976. He received a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1962 . He became a Junior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Institute of Research in Humanities in 1962 . A year later he took the same position at the Center for Hellenic Studies . In 1964, Tarán became Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California.

Also in 1967 he was a member of the classics faculty at Columbia University. In 1971 he became Professor of Greek and Latin and Jay Professor of Greek and Latin in 1987 at the same university. In addition, Tarán was from 1976 to 1979 chairman of the department for classics at this university. Since 2004 he has been a professor emeritus at Columbia University.

Fonts (selection)

• Parmenides . A text with translation, commentary, and critical essays . Princeton 1965, OCLC 954751041 .
• Asclepius of Tralles : Commentary to Nicomachus' Introduction to arithmetic . Philadelphia 1969, OCLC 879000316 .
• Academica. Plato , Philip of Opus , and the pseudo-Platonic Epinomis . Philadelphia 1975, ISBN 0-87169-107-8 .
• Anonymous commentary on Aristotle 's 'De interpretatione'. (Codex Parisinus Graecus 2064) . Meisenheim 1978, ISBN 3-445-01621-6 .
• with Dimitri Gutas : Aristotle, Poetics. Editio Maior of the Greek Text With Historical Introductions and Philological Commentaries (= Mnemosyne Supplement Volume 338). Brill, Leiden u. a. 2012, ISBN 90-04-21740-1 .

Web links

• prabook.com