Bruce M. King's teaching and writing focus on Homeric epic, pre-Socratic philosophy, Athenian tragedy, and comparative studies of epic and of wisdom traditions. He is completing a book entitled Akhilleus Unheroic, which explores the Iliad's dramatization of the end of the heroic and of the relationship of Akhilleus and Patroklos. He has taught at Columbia University, at the Gallatin School of Independent Study (NYU), and at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research; he has been a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, at the Reid Hall Center for Scholars in Paris, as well as the Blegen Fellow at Vassar College.