When he was captain of the volleyball team his senior year of college, Yale won the Eastern Collegiate Volleyball League and got to play in the Final Four at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.

Peter in his own words (from his Davidson profile):

I can see pretty clearly that my love of classics and ancient history started with and has been regularly reinforced by travel in the Mediterranean world. When I was ten years old, my family climbed into a VW minibus for a two-month trip starting in Germany. We drove across the Alps and down Italy, took a ferry to Greece, drove from Greece to Turkey, getting as far south as Miletus before returning to Germany, where my father was spending a sabbatical in Tübingen. I was hooked.

Links for this episode:

* Davidson Profile

* Academia.edu

* Google Scholar

* ResearchGate

* Amazon Author Page

* The octopus book Peter mentioned: Remarkably Bright Creatures

* The vocal group Peter Mentioned: VOCES8

* Video Version

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