Peter White is a professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the

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. He has made some contributions to scholarship on

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, even Roman poetics. He has written ''Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993), for which he won the

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's Goodwin Award in 1995. He has won some other honors, including the University of Chicago's highly prized Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He took his B.A. from

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in 1963 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1972. He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1968. He has since been universally acclaimed as the cornerstone of the Classical Languages and Literatures department at the University.

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