Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was one of Columbia University's greatest
teachers and in his day the most celebrated classical scholar in
America. One may regard his life and career as both extraordinary and
controversial. Now, over forty years after his death, a fresh retrospect
seems appropriate, as a way of presenting new information about him and
evaluating his enduring classical legacy for the twenty-first century
reader. This fully documented biographical appreciation of Highet's life
and work, capped by fully updated bibliographies of publications by him
and about him, offers a long-overdue official life of this unique and
towering figure.