DATE OF BIRTH: 15. 9 .1939 PLACE OF BIRTH: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. NATIONALITY: Irish/U.S. EDUCATION: 1948-53 St. Gerard's School, Bray, Co. Wicklow 1953-7 Downside School, Nr. Bath, Somerset 1957 Entrance scholarship in Classics to Oriel College, Oxford 1957-61 Oriel College, Oxford, B.A. (Lit. Hum.) 1963 M.A. (Oxon). 1963 -4 Ist. Year Law studies, King's Inns, Dublin 1964-6 Graduate studies at U.C.D. with Prof. John O'Meara. Topic: 'The Commentary of Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus' 1966-9 Graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, with Prof. Gerson Rabinowitz. 1969 Ph. D. (Univ. of California, Berkeley), 'The Commentary of Iamblichus on Plato's Timaeus: A Collection of the Fragments, with Translation and Commentary.' TEACHING POSITIONS 1961-3 Teaching English and Latin, The English School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1964-6 Teaching Latin and Greek, Glenstal Abbey School, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland 1966-69 Associate in Classics, University of California, Berkeley 1969-72 Assistant Professor of Classics, U.C. Berkeley 1972-77 Associate Professor of Classics, U.C. Berkeley, 1974-76 Chairman, Division of Interdisciplinary and General Studies, U.C. Berkeley 1976-77 Visiting Professor of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin 1977-80 Professor, and Chairman of the Dept. of Classics U.C, Berkeley, 1980- Regius Professor of Greek, Trinity College, Dublin 1982 Visiting Professor of Classics, U.C. Berkeley Spring Quarter 1984 Visiting Professor of Classics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Fall Semester 1993 Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Washington, Winter Term RESEARCH/ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS 1988 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Jan. - April 1996 Visiting Directeur de Recherche, C.N.R.S., Paris, Winter-Spring 1997-- Director, Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition 2003 -- Director, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens 2003 Oct.-Nov. Visiting Research Fellow, Universidad Carlos III - Madrid 2006 March Visiting Professor, Gakushuin University, Tokyo PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS 1976-7 Faculty Research Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley 1982 Elected to Fellowship, Trinity College, Dublin 1983 Member, Royal Irish Academy (Council: 1987-8; 1990-4; 1998-2002; Senior Vice-President, 2001/2) 2004-7 President, International Plato Society 2005 Gold Medal in the Humanities of the Royal Irish Academy 2010 Elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens

My chief field of interest is Ancient Philosophy, and in particular the philosophy of Plato, and the tradition stemming from him, through the Old Academy, the 'Middle Platonic' and 'Neoplatonic' periods, to the Arabic, Christian and Renaissance periods, as well as the Jewish Platonism of Philo of Alexandria. My particular concerns at the moment are with Philo, Plotinus, and Dionysius the Areopagite. With Prof. Andrew Smith, I am currently acting as General Editor of a series of translations of the tractates of Plotinus, with commentaries, for Parmenides Press, of which ten volumes have so far been published.