Peter T. Struck is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Professor of

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at the

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as well as the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of College of Arts & Sciences

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of the College of Arts & Sciences. He is the co-founder with Sarah Igo of the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education. He sits on the editorial board of the

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Selected publications

*''Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts''. Princeton, 2004. (Awarded the Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association for best book in classical studies.) *''Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination''. Brill, 2006. (Edited with Sarah Iles Johnston) *''The Cambridge Companion to Allegory''.

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, 2010. (Edited with Rita Copeland) *''Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Antiquity''. Princeton, 2016. (Awarded the Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association for best book in classical studies. Only person to win this award twice in its history.)

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