White, Jeffrey A.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
Classical Languages, Irish Studies
ACADEMIC SCHOOL
School of Arts and Sciences
TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Professor Emeritus, Classics
CONTACT
OFFICE
COURSES TAUGHT
- GRK 101-102. Elementary Greek
- GRK 201. Intermediate Greek
- GRK 202. Plato
- Aristophanes (graduate & undergraduate)
- Euripides
- LAT 101-102. Elementary Latin
- LAT 201. Introduction to the Latin Authors of the Republic
- LAT 202. Introduction to the Latin Authors of the Empire
- LAT 311. Vergil: Aeneid
- Lucretius (graduate & undergraduate)
- Sallust
- Tacitus
- LAT 403. Latin Prose Composition I
- LAT 404. Latin Prose Composition II
- CULT 103. Greek & Roman Mythology
- Greek Tragedy in Translation
- CULT 106. Women of Greece
- CULT 201-202. Latin & Greek Etymology
- CULT 205. Greek Literature in Translation
- CULT 206. Latin Literature in Translation
- Irish Literature (in English) and History (800 A.D.—1928, Cromwell, the Famine)
ACADEMIC DEGREES
- Ph.D., Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975
- M.A., Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969
- NDEA Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1967
- B.A., Classics (cum laude), Boston College, 1967
OTHER EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Porphyry, The Cave of the Nymphs in The Odyssey, edited & translated by J. Duffy, P. Sheridan, L.G. Westerink, and J. White (Buffalo: Arethusa Monographs I, 1969).
- Fata Habent Libelli Manuscripti: Some Notes on a Justin Codex, LATOMUS 38 (1979) 223-230.
- “Bellerophon in the ‘Land of Nod’: Some Notes on ILIAD 6.153-211,” American Journal of Philology 103.2 (1982) 119-127. (Delivered orally, in an earlier draft, at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Boston, 29 December 1979.)
- “Towards a Critical Edition of Biondo Flavio’s Italia Illustrata: A Survey & An Evaluation of the MSS,” in Roma Nel’ Quattrocento: La Curia, La Corte, La Citta (Roma: Bulzoni Editore 1983) 267-293. (Delivered orally, in an earlier draft, at the Congress on Humanism in Rome in the Fifteenth Century, held at Columbia, on 8 December 1981.)
- Flavio Biondo: Italy Illuminated (Vol. I, Books I-IV). Editor, Translator, and Commentator. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2005.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Honesty, thoughtfulness & thoroughness, precision, humility, establishing connections
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
Vol. 2, Biondo Flavio, Italy Illuminated
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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