INTERVIEW: PROF. DR VICTOR CASTELLANI

Abstract

Professor Victor Castellani is a renowned professor in the field of classical languages, ancient literature and humanities.

He was born in Brooklyn, NYC, on February 14, 1947. He graduated from the Brooklyn Preparatory School („Greek Honors”) in 1964, graduated from Fordham University in 1968 and received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1971 with a dissertation on „House and Home in Euripides”.

Professor Castellani is a full professor at the University of Denver and had been the chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures for several terms.

He has written a very large number of articles and reviews, and has given hundreds of lectures around the world. His specialties are ancient tragedy, comedy, epics and Roman law.

The interview was led by Isidora Fürst, on December 7, 2021.

A video recording of the interview is available at the YouTube channel of the Herald of Legal History: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTorTliVwloaGPAYzFm-BSw