1937
Born in Anshun, China to John Alfred and Lillian Maud Austin.
1958
Receives a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.
1959
Receives a Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley.
1965
Receives a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California Berkeley.
1966
Becomes an assistant and then associate professor at the University of California Los Angeles.
1968
Becomes a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies.
1971
Serves as visiting professor at Yale University.
1974
Becomes a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
1975
Authors “Archery at the Dark of the Moon.”
1976
Becomes an Aurelio Professor of Greek at Boston University.
1978
Becomes a professor and chairman of the Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts.
1980
Becomes a professor of classics at the University of Arizona.
1987
Serves as acting humanities dean at the University of Arizona.
1990
Authors “Meaning and Being in Myth.”
1994
Authors “Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom.”
1995
Appointed head of the Department of Classics at the University of Arizona.
1999
Serves as a visiting professor at Leeds University.
2002
Becomes Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Education at the University of Arizona.
2011
Authors “Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery.”