| DATE OF BIRTH: 15. 9 .1939
PLACE OF BIRTH: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
NATIONALITY: Irish/U.S.
EDUCATION:
1948-53 St. Gerard’s School, Bray, Co. Wicklow
1953-7 Downside School, Nr. Bath, Somerset
1957 Entrance scholarship in Classics to Oriel College, Oxford
1957-61 Oriel College, Oxford, B.A. (Lit. Hum.)
1963 M.A. (Oxon).
1963 -4 Ist. Year Law studies, King’s Inns, Dublin
1964-6 Graduate studies at U.C.D. with Prof. John O’Meara. Topic: ‘The
Commentary of Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus’
1966-9 Graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, with Prof.
Gerson Rabinowitz.
1969 Ph. D. (Univ. of California, Berkeley), ‘The Commentary of Iamblichus on Plato’s Timaeus: A Collection of the Fragments, with Translation and Commentary.’
TEACHING POSITIONS
1961-3 Teaching English and Latin, The English School, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
1964-6 Teaching Latin and Greek, Glenstal Abbey School, Murroe,
Co. Limerick, Ireland
1966-69 Associate in Classics, University of California, Berkeley
1969-72 Assistant Professor of Classics, U.C. Berkeley
1972-77 Associate Professor of Classics, U.C. Berkeley,
1974-76 Chairman, Division of Interdisciplinary and General Studies, U.C. Berkeley
1976-77 Visiting Professor of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin
1977-80 Professor, and Chairman of the Dept. of Classics U.C, Berkeley,
1980- Regius Professor of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin
1982 Visiting Professor of Classics, U.C. Berkeley Spring Quarter
1984 Visiting Professor of Classics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Fall Semester
1993 Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Washington, Winter
Term
RESEARCH/ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
1988 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Jan. –
April
1996 Visiting Directeur de Recherche, C.N.R.S., Paris, Winter-Spring
1997-- Director, Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition
2003 -- Director, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens
2003 Oct.-Nov. Visiting Research Fellow, Universidad Carlos III – Madrid
2006 March Visiting Professor, Gakushuin University, Tokyo
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS
1976-7 Faculty Research Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
1982 Elected to Fellowship, Trinity College, Dublin
1983 Member, Royal Irish Academy (Council: 1987-8; 1990-4; 1998-2002;
Senior Vice-President, 2001/2)
2004-7 President, International Plato Society
2005 Gold Medal in the Humanities of the Royal Irish Academy
2010 Elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens
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