Curriculum Vitae


Peter L. D. Reid

  B.A., M.A., Cambridge University;

Ph.D., UCLA 1974

 

Academic Career

Previous Positions

Books

Awards

Grants

College Courses Taught

Miscellaneous

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Academic Career:

Tufts University, 1974-

Chair, Classics Dept. 1983-87, and 1992-95, 1997-2002

Director, New England Classical Institute 1981-98


Previous Positions:

The Thacher School, Ojai, CA: 1966-70

[Director, Thacher Sierra Wilderness School]

Collegiate Sch., Wanganui, New Zealand: 1964-66 [Chair, Classics Dept.]

Trinity College, Glenalmond, Scotland: Instructor in Classics 1960-63


Books:

Ratherii Veronensis: Opera Minora (Brepols, 1976)

   (Corpus Christianorum,XLVI)

 Tenth Century Latinity (Undena, 1981)

 Ratherii Veronensis: Opera Maiora (Brepols, 1984)

   (Corpus Christianorum, XLVIA)

Rather of Verona: Complete Works in Translation

  (CEMERS, Binghamton, 1991)


Awards:

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, 1981

Tufts Univ. Faculty Research Awards: 1975, 1979, 1989

The Gerondelis Foundation, 1988-9, for CANE Workshops for teachers

The Gerondelis Foundation, 1994, for Perseus Workshops for secondary teachers


Grants:

National Endowment for the Humanities:

  Summer Institutes for Secondary Teachers [36 teachers each

  summer]:

  1983-84 New England Classical Institute

  1987 Vergil and the Augustan Age

  1990 Aristophanes and the Age of Pericles

  1991 The World of Homer

  1994 The World of Socrates

  1998 Vergil and the Augustan Age

 CANE: Workshops for Teachers, 1988


College Courses taught:

  Latin: Beginning and Intermediate; 100-level: Vergil's Aeneid; Horace;

  Roman Satire; Roman Comedy; Catullus; Seneca; Cicero; Martial;

  Medieval Latin; Vulgar Latin

  Greek: Beginning and Intermediate; 100-level: Aeschylus; Homer;

  Plato; Aristophanes; Sophocles

  Classics: Greek and Latin Classics in Translation; Greek and Latin Roots

  of English; Greek and Roman Comedy; Ages of Exploration; Mythology

  in Art and Literature; Aristophanes and Periclean Athens; Classical Epic;

  Classical Biography; Age of Caesar; Age of Augustus; Age of Nero

  EXP Freshman courses: Gilbert and Sullivan; Odysseys

  Winter Study course: Scottish Poetry and Dance


Miscellaneous:

  Lieutenant, Royal Marines, 1955-56, Volunteer Res. 1953-63, [Cliff-

  leader]

  Combat Service: Commando Brigade: Cyprus 1955-6, Suez Campaign

  1956

   Leader, cadet winter training: Scottish Highlands 1961, 62, 63

   Leader, winter mountaineering expeditions: New Zealand Alps, 1964,

  1965

   Leader, European Travel Groups: Putney Student Travel, 1970, 1972,

  1974

  Sports: Rugby: played for Perthshire County and Royal Marines (Med.)

  Coach: rugby in Scotland and New Zealand, Varsity soccer coach, The

  Thacher School, CA