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DR. ROBERT ZASLAVSKY is the author of the recently published “The First Latin Course: An Introductory Latin Grammar for Middle School, High School, and College.”
He received a BA in Philosophy and English from Temple University, and an MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. In addition, he has done graduate work in English at New York University and in education at Cabrini College. At Cabrini College, he served also as interim Secondary Education Advisor (observing and evaluating student teachers).
In addition to his two decades of teaching Latin and Greek in private and public middle and high schools, he has taught courses in Literature, Religion, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Film, and Art History on the university level and in secondary private and public schools.
He has made presentations to the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching and the Texas Foreign Language Association on methods of teaching an inflected language for today’s students and on teaching students learning and translation strategies. Furthermore, he has been a guest lecturer on Greek philosophy, on poetry, on methods of textual study, and on the Bible, Maimonides, and Milton.
He is the author of “Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing.” In addition, he has published scholarly essays on Plato, Aristotle, classical philology, detective fiction, Shakespeare, and Homer. He has been a guest columnist for the “Fort Worth Star-Telegram” and the “Fort Worth Weekly.” Most recently, he has contributed a regular column to the Atlanta (GA) weekly “The Sunday Paper,” writing on politics, technology, and education.
His next two books will be a study of American education and a commentary on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
He resides in Decatur, GA.