Classical Legacy of Gilbert Highet
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Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was one of Columbia University's greatest teachers and in his day the most celebrated classical scholar in America. One may regard his life and career as both extraordinary and controversial. Now, over forty years after his death, a fresh retrospect seems appropriate, as a way of presenting new information about him and evaluating his enduring classical legacy for the twenty-first century reader. This fully documented biographical appreciation of Highet's life and work, capped by fully updated bibliographies of publications by him and about him, offers a long-overdue "official life" of this unique and towering figure.
Robert J. Ball, professor emeritus of Classics, University of Hawaii, received his PhD from Columbia University, where he studied under Gilbert Highet. Professor Ball received an excellence in teaching award from the American Philological Association and the Regents Medal for excellence in teaching from the University of Hawaii. He has published Tibullus the Elegist: A Critical Survey (Göttingen, 1983); The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet (New York, 1983); The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert Highet (New York, 1998); Reading Classical Latin: A Reasonable Approach (New York, 2nd ed. 1997); and Reading Classical Latin: The Second Year (New York, 2nd ed. 1998).