Alan Lindley Boegehold took his A.B. in Latin at the University of Michigan in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Classical Philology at Harvard University in 1958. He taught Lain and Greek mostly at Brown University (1960-2001) but he began at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and taught from time to time as visitor at Harvard, Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Amherst College, and Florida State University . In exploring the world of Classical antiquity he has tried to use language, literature, philosophy, the structures of justice, and all material culture as ways to understanding.