Field-Of-Study: Classics

Bob Kaster was born in New York City, and educated at Dartmouth (B.A., 1969) and Harvard (M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1975). A Latinist who has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago (1975-97) and Princeton (1997- present), he has taught and written mainly in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education,

I was born in Germany on 28 February 1916, and after graduating from Gymnasium went to Florence to study Classics because of the German racial laws. In 1938 I received the degree of dottore in lettere with a thesis on Plato’s concept of tyche, but then was awarded a fellowship to the American School of Classical