Ryan Balot, Faculty Associate, 2006-

Professor of Political Science and Classics, University of Toronto.

Professor Balot specializes in Greek, Roman, and early modern political thought.

Balot is the author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2001) and of Greek Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). He is currently at work on Courage and Its Critics in Democratic Athens, from which he has published articles in Ancient Philosophy, Classical Quarterly, and Social Research. Balot is editor of Blackwell's Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).

Balot received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton University and his B.A. degrees in Classics from UNC-Chapel Hill and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Email: Ryan.Balot@utoronto.ca

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