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David Konstan
https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/david-konstan.html

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University, and Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His research focuses on ancient Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy and the novel, and classical philosophy. He has written books on friendship, pity, the emotions, forgiveness, beauty, and love in the classical world. He has also written on ancient physics and atomic theory, and has translated Seneca’s two tragedies about Hercules into verse. His most recent book is The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity. Konstan is past President of the American Philological Association and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.