Background
Peter Meineck was born in Melton Mowbray, England and grew up in New Malden.
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Peter Meineck
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His earned a Bachelor (Honours) in Ancient World Studies in the departments of Greek and Latin at University College London and his Doctor of Philosophy in Classics at the University of Nottingham.
Career
Peter is also a clinical professor of Classics at New York University. He has also held appointments at Princeton University and the University of South Carolina. He worked extensively in London theatre and founded Aquila Theatre in 1991.
His stated aim with Aquila is to bring the greatest works to the greatest number and he has developed a sixty-seventy city American tour that brings classical drama to communities of all sizes across the United States of America. Meineck translated the opera libretto for Cherubini’s Medee performed at Carnegie Hall and wrote and directed a new stage adaptation of Joseph Heller"s Catch-22.
He was a consultant on the film I Am Legend. He is director of the Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives project to promote classics.
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1999: USC Honors College Mortar Board Teaching Award 2000: Louis Galantiere Award for Oresteia, American Translators Association 2009: New York University Arts and Science Golden Dozen Teaching Award 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award.1999: USC Honors College Mortar Board Teaching Award 2000: Louis Galantiere Award for Oresteia, American Translators Association 2009: New York University Arts and Science Golden Dozen Teaching Award 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award.