Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. He has a B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans, an M.A. from Tulane University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1976). In 1976 he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas, where he served as department chair for 15. years. He teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as general courses on Greek literature and culture. He was awarded a Kemper Teaching Fellowship by the university and a Mortar Board Teaching Award. Since 2004 he has served as director of the University Honors Program. Professor Lombardo’s publications are primarily literary translations of Greek and Latin poetry, including Homer’s Iliad (Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Times, 7/20/97; recipient of the Byron Caldwell Book Award; performed by Aquila Theatre Company at Lincoln Center, 1999); Homer ‘s Odyssey (Hackett, 2000; reviewed in the New York Times, 7/09/00, and a New York Times Book of the Year); and translations of Plato, Hesiod, Callimachus, Sappho, (a finalist for the 2003 Pen Literary Award for translation); Virgil’s Aeneid (a finalist for the 2005 Pen Literary Award for translation); and most recently, Dante ‘s Inferno (Hackett, 2009). He maintains an interest in Asian philosophy and has co-authored a translation of Tao Te Ching and co-edited an anthology of Zen texts. He is currently working on a translation of Ovid ‘s Metamorphoses and Dante ‘s Purgatorio. Dr. Lombardo has given lectures and dramatic readings of his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Poetry Center and on C-SPAN and National Public Radio. His recordings of his translations of Homer are available as audio books (Parmenides Publishing).