Jamie Redfield passed away on May 29, at the age of 91, in his Hyde Park home. He was the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literatures, in the Committee on Social Thought, the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College. A UChicago “lifer,” graduating from the Lab School (’50) and following a UChicago higher education (AM ’54, PhD ’61), he was faculty at the university for over five decades. His scholarship brought novel anthropological perspectives to classical works, with a special focus on Homer and Plato, and his teaching span the range of Greek language and literature. With a distinctly witty and through-provoking style, he made an indelible mark on graduate student education across departments and won two Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1965, 1987): in his words, “Teaching is not an art, exactly, it’s not a skill. It’s a relationship" (The Core). Jamie Redfield authored numerous impactful essays and three monographs: Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector (1984); The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy (2003); and just recently Plato’s Seventh Letter (2026). Y ou can read more on his bio and work here. Jamie Redfield became really an institution in our intellectual community, and we will all miss him sorely.