Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., PhD
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. is professor emeritus of classics and former Director of the MAT Program at University of Massachusetts. He received a PhD from Loyola University of Chicago. Kitchell has won several teaching awards and has presented over 150 scholarly talks. He has promoted the study of classics for the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, where he served as president, the American Philological Association, as Vice-President for Education, and as the president of the American Classical League. Kitchell is the coeditor with Thomas J. Sienkewicz of the LEGAMUS series. Kitchell is coauthor with Sean Smith of Catullus: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2006), author of Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z (Routledge, 2014), The Other Middle Ages (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2016), They Said It First (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2019), and author of numerous articles and book chapters.
Books by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., PhD
They Said It First The Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
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They Said It First provides a unique twist on quotation collections: ancient Greek and Roman sayings, alongside English translations, are paired with their more modern counterparts. The likes of W. E. B. Dubois and Mark Twain may have eloquently expressed eternal truths and pithy witticisms—but frequently, Homer or Seneca the Younger got there first.
