Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, flowing translations of Homer and Virgil made him an esteemed and best-selling classical scholar, has died. He was 74. Fagles ...

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Robert Fagles, renowned translator of Greek classics, died March 26 in Princeton of prostate cancer. He was 74. Fagles, the Arthur Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton ...

With posters bearing the name and slogan of the man in the front of the classroom, audience members might have thought they were at a basketball game or political rally. But in the Whitney Humanities ...

NEW YORK — Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, flowing translations of Homer and Virgil made him an esteemed and best-selling classical scholar, has died. Fagles, ...

Princeton scholars Robert Fagles, a renowned translator of Greek classics, and Bernard Lewis, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, have been awarded the National Humanities Medal ...

Two recently retired Princeton professors were among the 10 National Humanities Medal winners President Bush received at the Oval Office last Thursday. Comparative literature professor emeritus Robert ...