Mulroy, David

David Mulroy holds a BA from Georgetown and a PhD in Classics from Stanford.  He is now a professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has worked since 1973.  He has published four books of translations of ancient Greek and Latin Poetry, Early Greek Lyric Poetry (Michigan 1992), Horace’s Odes and Epodes (Michigan 1994), The Complete Poetry of Catullus (Wisconsin 2002), and most recently Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (Wisconsin 2011).  His work on contemporary education, The War Against Grammar (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook) appeared in 2003.  His hobbies are working out and playing softball.  He is married with two children and two granddaughters.