Robert BallProfessor Emeritus of Classics

Greek Literature, Latin literature, and the Classical Tradition

Email: rball@hawaii.edu

 

Professor Ball served as Chair of LLEA (Fall 2005–Spring 2012), published five books and numerous articles in his field, and received the Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching from UH and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association. He recently published his sixth book, The Classical Legacy of Gilbert Highet: An In-Depth Retrospect (Lockwood Press, 2021)—a biographical study of one of Columbia University’s greatest teachers, regarded in his day as the most celebrated classical scholar in America. For the publisher’s listing of this book, see https://www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page/the-classical-legacy-of-gilbert-highet-an-in-depth-retrospect-with-updated-bibl, which provides the book’s table of contents, reviews and endorsements, and the author’s academic achievements. For two articles recently published by Professor Ball on this subject, see “Gilbert Highet, the First Celebrity Classicist” (Antigone [May 2022]), aimed at the general reader, and “Edmund Wilson’s Letter to Gilbert Highet about Highet’s Book The Classical Tradition” (Vergilius 70 [2024] 99–130).