Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets in 1991

(For his Iliad translation)

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Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1991 (For his Odyssey translation)

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1997, Ralph Manheim Medal

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National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 

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A resource center devoted to the study of the Classics was dedicated to Robert at Princeton High School on June 8th, 2011.

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Robert was given three honorary degrees at Amherst University, Yale University, and Bowdoin College.

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Robert was a also member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences & the American Philosophical Society.