Alfred GeierAlfred Geier received his BA from St. John's College in Annapolis, his MA in Political Philosophy under Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago, and his PhD in Classics under Ludwig Edelstein at The Johns Hopkins University. He taught at the Universty of Rochester in the Department of Religion and Classics for 50 years and is now retired. His most recent work is Plato's Erotic Thought: The Tree of the Unknown (University of Rochester Press, 2002). Currently he is working on The Misfortunes of Glaukus and Glaukon in Plato's Republic, and Divine Madness and Moderation in Plato's Phaedrus. Read More Read Less