Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, flowing translations of Homer and Virgil made him an esteemed and best-selling classical scholar, has died. He was 74. Fagles ...

Robert Fagles, renowned translator of Greek classics, died March 26 in Princeton of prostate cancer. He was 74. Fagles, the Arthur Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton ...

While former University professor Robert Fagles was being awarded the National Humanities medal by President Bush earlier this month, he was also garnering praise from colleagues after his translation ...

"The muses love the morning," said Robert Fagles, a recently retired comparative literature professor who rises at five every morning to work on his current project, a translation of Virgil's "Aeneid.

Achilles may have killed the mighty hector, but Robert Fagles did something far more heroic and arguably more difficult. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: He translated three of the greatest and longest poems in ...