Walter Donlan

Biography: Walter Donlan (1934-2006) taught Latin beginning in 1956 at the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and at Sterling School in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, before joining the faculty of Penn State. Donlan retired from the University of California at Irvine in 2001. Donlan received a BA from Harvard College and an MA and PhD from Northwestern University. He served as president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and was an editor of Classical World. In addition to writing numerous papers and essays, Donlan contributed to Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 1998) and A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2013). Donlan authored The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1999).