Resident's article among best in past 50 years

"The Omen of the Eagles and the Hooe of Aeschylus," an article by John Peradotto, Ph.D., of Amherst, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, has been included in an anthology of 13 of the most important articles on the Greek playwright Aeschylus published in the past 50 years.

The 1969 article by Peradotto, also an internationally recognized Homeric scholar, is an analysis of Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, a principal subject of Peradotto's writing for more than 30 years. In its original form, it was published in the journal Phoenix.

It has been included in "Aeschylus" (Oxford University Press), a 422-page anthology edited by Michael Lloyd that will be published next month as part of the series "Oxford Readings in Classical Studies."