Life

Meyer Reinhold was born on September 1, 1909. He attended High school at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn. Reinhold went to City College

City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning...

 to obtain his bachelors. Then he attended Columbia University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Ancient History in 1933. Following his attendance at Columbia, he spent two years at the American Academy in Rome

American Academy in Rome

The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

 as a fellow.

He began as a professor at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

, where he taught the classics. There, he was forced to resign in the midst of the McCarthy era. This was due to his unwillingness to answer questions about his political views and agenda. He took a few years off teaching and pursued outside interests after this forced resignation. In 1965, he had begun teaching again at Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...

 at Carbondale, where he taught Greek, Latin, and ancient history. In 1967, he moved to the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

 to teach classical studies. This is where he became the Byler Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies. In 1980, he was Professor Emeritus at Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

. During this endeavor, he had founded the Institute for the Classical Tradition. Also, he founded the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. In 1995, he became a visiting professor at Vanderbilt, in Nashville Tennessee.

Meyer Reinhold died in July 2002. He had a small family who were still living, his brother and his daughter, Helen Reinhold Barret, and her two children. He had a son who had died in 1996. Reinhold had become interested in classical studies after he had read Virgil’s Aeneid

Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...

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Works

• Essentials of Greek and Roman Classics: A Guide to the Humanities
• Classics Greek & Roman
• Past And Present: The Continuity of Classical Myth
• Classical Drama, Greek and Roman
• The Golden Age of Augustus (Aspects of Antiquity)
• Studies in Classical History and Society (American Classical Studies)
• From Republic To Principate: An Historical Commentary On Cassius Dio's…
• Essentials of Greek & Roman Classics A
• Classica Americana : the Greek and Roman heritage in the United States Classical traditions in early America
• From republic to principate: An historical commentary on Cassius Dio's…
• Classick Pages: Classical Reading of Eighteenth-century Americans (Amer.…
• Barron's Simplified Approach to Plato & Aristotle
• Essentials of the Greek and Roman Classics
• History of purple as a status symbol in antiquity (Collection Latomus)
• The Quest for Classical Drama Greek and Roman
• r "Useful Knowledge" in Eighteenth-Century America
• The classick pages : classical reading of eighteenth-century Americans
• A simplified approach to Plato & Aristotle
• Marcus Agrippa : a biography Barron's Simplified Approach to the Odyssey of Homer
• Barron's simplified approach to ten Greek tragedies
• Golden Age Augustus (Aspects of Antiquity)
• Barron's simplified approach to Vergil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid