[1] Educated at Rugby School, in 1937 he graduated with an honours degree in classics from Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge.

[7][5] By January 1946, when he gave a speech on "The Greeks and the Sea" at Vassar College in New York, he was serving as secretary and treasurer-elect to the American Branch of the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa.

[1] In 1952 he was made an associate professor of classics, in 1953 he spent time teaching at Vassar,[5] and from 1957 to 1960 he chaired the department at Chicago.

[1] In 1957 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to undertake research at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece,[10] where he also conducted excavations.

[18] The historian Lynn Townsend White Jr. wrote that "[h]enceforth anyone dealing with Theophilus must read both these books simultaneously, one in each hand.

[20] "The sit-in at Chicago is now over," he said, "without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts ... Where other colleges here and abroad have called in the police, the national guard, the military, this university, dedicated as it is to the solution of problems by intellectual, reasoning, and patient 'confrontation' of human minds has arrived at a decent, fair, and honorable solution of this crisis.

[25][26] Dolores Bandini was a post-doctoral research fellow of Edward Teller and had been invited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory while the Manhattan Project was underway, but left academia after giving birth.