Herbert W. Benario
Herbert W. Benario (21 July 1929 – 22 February 2022) was an American classical philologist.
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Biography
Herbert Benario was born in New York. He studied at the City College (B.A. 1948), Columbia University (M.A. 1949) and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D. 1951). From 1951 to 1953 he served with the US Army in the Korean War. He then spent time in Italy and Germany for research and educational purposes.
In 1960, Benario was appointed Assistant Professor of Classics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He was later appointed Full Professor. Benario retired in 1987.
In Benario's time, the study of Classics at Emory was only possible up to Bachelor's level (around 1970, there was also a Master's programme for a short time). Important philologists and historians received their initial training at Emory and continued their studies at other universities.
Benario was a member of the American Philological Association (since 1950), the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and the Vergilian Society of America, on whose board he served for several years.
His research interests included Roman historiography and rhetoric of the imperial period and the history of Classics in the United States.
Works
- The Sources of Pseudo-Asconius (1951; dissertation)
- Tacitus, Agricola, Germany, Dialogue on Orators (1967; translation, with an introduction and notes; 2006)
- An Introduction to Tacitus (1975)
- A Commentary on the Vita Hadriani in the Historia Augusta (1980)
- Tacitus, Annals 11 and 12 (1983; The Classical World Special Series)
- The Classical Association of the Middle West and South. A History of the First Eighty Years (1989)
As editor
- Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve: An American Classicist (1986; with Ward W. Briggs)
- The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1987; with Ward W. Briggs)
