Education
and Doctor of Philosophy (1955).
and Doctor of Philosophy (1955).
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics from Harvard University in 1943, followed by an Master of Arts Reiche became Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. Reiche was one of the few academics to positively review Santillana"s Hamlet"s Mill (1969) which was widely criticized. In 1979, Reiche offered an archaeoastronomical reading of Plato"s Atlantis story.
A fairly negative review appeared in the Journal for the History of Astronomy the following year, noting it is "difficult to decide how seriously to take the long article by Reiche who interprets the layout of Atlantis as a sort of map of the sky".