In his later life, he worked as a Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
With the aid of a Fulbright scholarship, he attended Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied classics and earned a Master of Arts degree.
He earned his PhD at Princeton University in New Jersey in 1967 with a thesis on Isocrates and Philip II of Macedon.
He had a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies from 1976–1977, and published a number of significant articles in the 1977–1982 period on his work based on the findings of Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos as well as Photios Petsas.
His demonstration of his replica sarissa at the University of Virginia brought "attention from from the public and the local police" alike.