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David Konstan (born 1 November 1940) is an American classicist and academic, known for his work on notions of emotion and beauty in the ancient world. Currently a Professor of Classics at NYU, he previously spent three decades teaching at
Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, where he remains John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees, all from Columbia University.


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One of his books has been reviewed in '' The Wall Street Journal''. Some of his books are: * ''The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature'' * ''A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus'' * ''Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea'' * ''Friendship in the Classical World'' * ''Roman Comedy'' * ''Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres'' * ''Greek Comedy and Ideology'' * ''Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology'' * ''Catullus' Indictment of Rome: The meaning of Catullus 64''


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* http://classics.as.nyu.edu/object/DavidKonstan.html * http://hellenic.as.nyu.edu/object/DavidKonstan.html * https://vivo.brown.edu/display/dkonstan 1940 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers New York University faculty {{US-historian-stub Brown University faculty American male non-fiction writers Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni