Author

John Glucker studied Philosophy, History and Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Classics at the University of Oxford. From 1964 to 1978, he was Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter, UK, and, from 1978 until his retirement in 2001, he served as Professor of Classical Philology and Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Antiochus and the Late Academy (1978), a number of Hebrew books on ancient philosophy and philology, and about 150 articles on various aspects of ancient Greek and Roman literature and history and their afterlife in modern European literature. He is the co-editor of the collection of essays Greek into Latin from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (2012).