Garnered Thoughts

Garnered Thoughts is written by
Richard Garner.

Dean Garner came to Adelphi in 1994 to create the Honors College and continues as its founding dean. He has taught 33 different courses and 18 different tutorials in Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French, German, literature and history.

Dean Garner has published two books, Law and Society in Classical Athens (1987) and From Homer to Tragedy (1990) and numerous articles on Greek lyric poetry and tragedy. His honors include the William Clyde DeVane Phi Beta Kappa Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching at Yale (1992), all the other major teaching prizes at Yale, and selection as the Loeb Lecturer at Harvard in 1994.

Dean Garner graduated from Princeton in 1975 Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. in Slavic languages and literatures. He took an M.A. in the same field from Harvard in 1976 and an additional M.A. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 1980. He received his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought in 1983 with a dissertation in classics at the same time that he completed a three-year fellowship with the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.

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