Friedrich Solmsen (1904-1989) was Chair of the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Moses Slaughter Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many books include Plato's Theology , Hesiod and Aeschylus , and Aristotle's System of the Physical World: A Comparison with His Predecessors , all published by Cornell in the series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.Joseph Tabbi is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.