Robert A. Kaster

About the Author

Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics, emeritus, and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, emeritus, at Princeton University. His previous books include Guardians of Languages Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome; and translations and critical editions of show more several Latin texts. show less

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Works by Robert A. Kaster

Guardians of language : the grammarian and society in late antiquity (1988) 39 copies

Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (Classical Culture and Society) (2005) 30 copies

How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly (2023) — Editor — 19 copies

Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (0056) — Author — 16 copies

Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia (American Classical Studies) (2010) 7 copies

Studies on the Text of Suetonius De Grammaticis Et Rhetoribus (American Classical Studies) (1992) 5 copies

Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World (Emotions of the Past) (2016) — Editor — 5 copies

Studies on the Text of Seneca's De beneficiis (2022) 3 copies

Seneca: De Beneficiis (L. Annaei Senecae De beneficiis: Libri VII, De clementia: Libri II, Apocolocyntosis) (Oxford… (2022) 3 copies

Studies on the text of Suetonius' De uita caesarum (2016) 1 copy

Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX-XII commentarii (Special Publications of the Society for Classical Studies) (2018) 1 copy

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Brutus and Orator (1939) — Translator, some editions — 129 copies

A Companion to Latin Literature (2005) — Contributor — 49 copies

Lives of the Caesars & On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric (C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum libri VIII et De… (1995) — Editor — 38 copies

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (2009) — Contributor — 30 copies

Saturnalia [Latin text] (1963) — Editor, some editions — 24 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies

Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2001) — Contributor — 18 copies

Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie (1997) — Contributor — 13 copies

Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition (Yale Classical Studies) (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies

The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (2016) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures (Ancient World:… (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies

Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2003) — Contributor — 3 copies

The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences) (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies

Transactions of the American Philological Association. Volume 127 (1997) — Contributor — 2 copies

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Volume 84 (1980) — Contributor — 2 copies

Transactions of the American Philological Association Volume 131 — Contributor — 1 copy

Callida musa: papers on Latin literature in honour of R. Elaine Fantham (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy

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The Appian Way : ghost road, queen of roads by Robert A. Kaster

Princeton classics professor Kaster takes on the ancient Appian Way for the Culture Trails series. Kaster and his wife traveled the Appian way from Rome outwards to the ninth milestone, then started from its opposite end in Brindisi and traveled through southern Italy back to Rome. Along the way, Kaster reflects on the ancient history of Rome as well as the tribes that populated various regions of southern Italy. Each successive civilization has left its mark on the landscape, and Kaster peels back the layers for readers. This book is full of interesting historical facts, but they’re not assembled in a way that makes me long to visit these sites in person.… (more)

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