Meyer Reinhold

Meyer Reinhold (1909–2002) was an American classical scholar.

Life

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

He began as a professor at Brooklyn College, 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 at Carbondale, where he taught Greek, Latin, and ancient history. In 1967, he moved to the University of Missouri 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. 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.

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

References

• Ari L, Goldman, “Meyer Reinhold, 92, Scholar Who Popularized the Classics”. The New York Times. July 5, 2002. 1.
• Wolfgang Haas, “In Memoriam Meyer Reinhold”. International Journal of the Classical Edition. July 2002. 3-7.