{"id":2341,"date":"2017-10-20T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=2341"},"modified":"2024-09-23T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:45:11","slug":"king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/king\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Benjamin King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-b8tyat-2b5926d6db8982397200fde5b1c44f37\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-b8tyat-2b5926d6db8982397200fde5b1c44f37{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-b8tyat-2b5926d6db8982397200fde5b1c44f37 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-b8tyat-2b5926d6db8982397200fde5b1c44f37 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-b8tyat-2b5926d6db8982397200fde5b1c44f37 av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-8qtfcl-9688af51e98116a25bea44fdfe837582\">\n.flex_column.av-8qtfcl-9688af51e98116a25bea44fdfe837582{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-8qtfcl-9688af51e98116a25bea44fdfe837582 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-79rhmt-9680a8b539cee67ace6526a77f42e2ba  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-4854 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-4854 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-225x300.jpeg\" alt='Benjamin King'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"300\" width=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-773x1030.jpeg 773w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-1125x1500.jpeg 1125w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-529x705.jpeg 529w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BenKing.9172024-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Benjamin King<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Lecturer, <em>Classics<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Ph.D. in Classics, Princeton University, 1997<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2411<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:benjamin.king@ucr.edu\">benjamin.king@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lonnp-6a42339a387c0b46229dc13aeac03709\">\n.flex_column.av-lonnp-6a42339a387c0b46229dc13aeac03709{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-lonnp-6a42339a387c0b46229dc13aeac03709 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3hgaol-195ce90f0813845aeb0165de1060f297 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ben King grew up in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and went to the University of Virginia, where he received a B.A. in Classics. Later, at Princeton University, he wrote a dissertation on the Histories of Herodotus and earned a Ph.D., also in Classics. In 1997, Ben accepted a position as a lecturer at UCR and moved to Riverside, where he has taught Ancient Greek and Latin language and literature ever since. His research interests include Homeric epic, ancient historiography, and classical philosophy. He is also an avid fan of karaoke and has hosted karaoke nights at various venues in Long Beach, CA over the last twenty-some years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-6w8zp-fe6305ca92e47654d41c386a013770a0-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='\/people\/faculty\/#tab-id-2'  class='avia-button av-6w8zp-fe6305ca92e47654d41c386a013770a0 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue88c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Back to Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1769,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2341\/revisions\/4853"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}