Edwin D. Floyd (PH.D., Princeton, 1965) is chair of the Department of Classics. He joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1966, having taught previously at the College of William and Mary. His areas of specialization are Greek poetry, Greek and Indo-European linguistics, and Sanskrit. Homer, Sappho, Parmenides, Pindar, and Aristophanes are among the authors on whom he has published, along with Linear B, Greek phonology and morphology, and the development of Indo-European poetic formulas in the Rig-Veda and Mahabharata and in Homer and post-Homeric Greek.


Website: http://www.pitt.edu/~edfloyd/