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`````` Background 2组 Gilbert Highet Gilbert Arthur Highet (June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish-American classicist, academic 学者, writer, intellectual 知识分子, critic and literary 精通文学的 historian. Born in Scotland, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-century teacher of the humanities in the United States. He attended Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford, becoming a fellow of St John‘s College, Oxford in 1932, where he remained for six years. He had met his wife, the well-known novelist Helen MacInnes, while they were fellow-students 同学at Glasgow, and they married in 1932. In 1938 he was appointed to the chair of Latin Greek at Columbia University. He stayed at Columbia until 1971 (except for British Army service[1] during World War II). He became an American citizen in 1951, following his appointment as Anthon Professor of Latin Language and Literature in 1950. See his obituary 讣fu告in The Times, January 26, 1978. Highet devoted most of his energy to teaching, but he also aspired 追求 to raise the level of mass culture and achieved broader influence by publishing essays and books, hosting his own radio program, acting as a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and serving on the editorial board of Horizon magazine. Highet wrote voluminously 篇幅长地，容量大的. He is remembered today for: An Outline of Homer (1935) The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (1949) The Art of Teaching (1950) Mans Unconquerable Mind (1954) Juvenal 羽毛未丰的 the Satirist 讽刺作家: A Study (1954) Poets in a Landscape (1957) The Powers of Poetry (1960) The Anatomy of Satire (1962) The Immortal 永恒的 Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976) Another solution (1951) one of Highets few fictional pieces, published in Harpers Magazine. Plato 柏拉图 Biography Early life Little can be known about Platos early life and education, due to a lack of surviving accounts. The philosopher came from one of the wealthi