Peter T. Struck is professor of

classical studies Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universit ...

. 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

Journal of the History of Ideas The ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering intellectual history and the history of ideas, including the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences, religion, ...

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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