he was commissioned by Jerusalem publishers Keter to translate Homer's epics from Greek to Hebrew (though publication was much delayed, Keter 1996). Kahane completed his D.Phil. at Balliol College, Oxford (1990 supervised by Jasper Griffin), where, between 1987 and 1990 he was also sometime Lecturer in Classics. During this period Kahane also became associated with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and began work with N. S. Doniach, OBE and a team of lexicographers at Oxford University Press on the Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary, a project which he co-edited with Doniach and brought to completion shortly after Doniach's death in 1996. In 1990 Kahane became a Junior Research Fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford and at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and in 1993 a Junior Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1994 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University where he was tenured as Associate Professor (2000) and later (2003) appointed Chairman of the Department of Classics. During this period Kahane maintained an appointment as Senior Associate at the Centre for Hebrew Studies in Oxford. He co-founded (1998, with S. Sara Monoson) the Classical Traditions Initiative at Northwestern and worked closely with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. In 2004 Kahane took up the appointment of Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was also associate director of the University of London Institute in Paris (2006-8), Director of the Humanities and Arts Research Institute (2005–11), Head of the Classics Department (2012-2015) and co-director of the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (2007–19). Kahane was appointed Regius Professor of Greek (1761) and A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in 2019 and was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2020. Publications The Gods in Greek Hexameter Poetry and Beyond (edited with J. Clauss and M. Cuypers) (2016) Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag. ISBN Homer: Guide for the Perplexed (2012) London: Continuum/Bloomsbury. Social Order and Informal Codes (in Hebrew), with T. Rappoport, (2012) Jerusalem: Resling Publishers. Antiquity and the Ruin Revue européenne d'histoire Vol. 18.5-6 (2011), (special double-issue). Diachronic Dialogues: Continuity and Authority in Homer and the Homeric Tradition in series "Greek Studies, Interdisciplinary Approaches" (2005), (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. A Companion to the Prologue to Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (edited with A. J. W. Laird) (2001) Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Chicago Homer