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Kaster, Robert Andrew was born on February 6, 1948 in New York City. Son of A. Russell and Gloria Kaster.
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Classical Culture and Society (Series Editors: Joseph A. Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, and Ian Morris, Stanford University) is a new series from Oxford that emphasizes innovative, imaginative scholarship by leading scholars in the field of ancient culture. Among the topics covered will be the historical and cultural background of Greek and Roman literary texts; the production and reception of cultural artifacts; the economic basis of culture; the history of ideas, values, and concepts; and the relationship between politics and/or social practice and ancient forms of symbolic expression (religion, art, language, and ritual, among others). Interdisciplinary approaches and original, broad-ranging research form the backbone of this series, which will serve classicists as well as appealing to scholars and educated readers in related fields. Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions.
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What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"—the schools of grammar and rhetoric—in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and religious changes that had taken place around them? The grammarian was a pivotal figure in the lives of the educated upper classes of late antiquity. Introducing his students to correct language and to the literature esteemed by long tradition, he began the education that confirmed his students' standing in a narrowly defined elite. His profession thus contributed to the social as well as cultural continuity of the Empire. The grammarian received honor—and criticism; the profession gave the grammarian a firm sense of cultural authority but also placed him in a position of genteel subordination within the elite. Robert A. Kaster provides the first thorough study of the place and function of these important but ambiguous figures. He also gives a detailed prosopography of the grammarians, and of the other "teachers of letters" below the level of rhetoric, from the middle of the third through the middle of the sixth century, which will provide a valuable research tool for other students of late-antique education.
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Kaster, Robert Andrew was born on February 6, 1948 in New York City. Son of A. Russell and Gloria Kaster.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1969. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1975.
Instructor classics Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1973-1974. Assistant professor classics University Chicago, 1975-1982, associate professor, 1982-1989, professor, 1989-1997, chairman department, 1994-1997. Distinguished service professor Avalon Foundation, 1996-1997.
Professor classics Princeton (New Jersey) University, since 1997, Kennedy Foundation professor Latin, since 1997, chairman department, 2000—2003.
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( What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the pr...)
(Classical Culture and Society (Series Editors: Joseph A. ...)
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Member American Philological Association (president 1996), Association Ancient Historians, Vergilian Society American.
Married Laura Alyx Blumenson, June 22, 1969. Children: Paul Adam, Anna Claire.