He taught at Queens College, Fordham University and Seton Hall University, and served for several years as director of religious publishing at Doubleday, which released much of his work, most recently the 2013 book “Heretics and Heroes.”Ī New York City native, Cahill majored in classical literature and medieval philosophy at Fordham University and received a master’s degree in film and dramatic literature from Columbia University. “But the advances we associate with the Renaissance in the arts, sciences, education, scholarship, linguistics and even political experimentation all got under way in the Middle Ages.”īesides writing history, Cahill was an education correspondent for the Times of London. “Of course, there was plenty of ignorance, as there is in every age,” he told the AP in 2006. The Aeneid Virgil Translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction by Bernard Knox Viking: 486 pp., $40 Books From the archives: Thomas Cahill on translation
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