Office Address	Department of Classical Languages Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka.
	Home Address	64, Thakshila Lane, Dangolla, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka
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Educational & Professional Qualifications

BA in Western Classics (Ceylon) 1954 BA in Latin, Greek and Ethics (London) 1959 MA in Classics (London) 1961 PhD (London) 1963

Positions Held (selected)

Associate Professor and Head. Department of Classical Languages. University of Peradeniya (1980-1982) Professor of Western Classics and Head. Department of Classical Languages. University of Peradeniya (1982-1992) Senior Professor of Western Classics and Head, Department of Classical Languages. University of Peradeniya (1992-1995) Senior Professor of Western Classics (On extension) University of Peradeniya (1996 -1999) Professor Emeritus of Western Classics. University of Peradeniya (2000 - Present) Visiting Professor, Western Classics, Fine Arts and Archaeology. University of Peradeniya (2001- Present)

Awards & Recognitions (selected)

University Scholarship in Arts on performance at B.A. Degree Examination (1954)  Postgraduate studies in U.K. (University of London) leading to Ph.D Degree (1961-1963) (On Sabbatical Leave) Three month study tour of archeological sites, museums and art galleries in Greece, Rome, Florence, Paris, London and Cairo. (1969) Appointed Justice of Peace. Judicial District of Kandy in recognition of Public services (1978 - 1983) (On Sabbatical Leave) Invited by the Foreign Ministry of Greece for a ten month study tour of Greece. (1978-1979) Invited to the International Cultural Foundation Conference at Athens, Greece (July). (1978-1980)  Invited and represented Sri Lanka ( this the first time) at the VIIth Congress of the International Federation of Societies of Classical Studies (FIEC) at Budapest (September 6th –11th 1980). Invited by DAAD to Federal Republic of Germany for 3 month visit to universities of Gottingen, Bonn, Berlin and Munich as Visiting Scholar (September-November 1980) Invited to the International Cultural Foundation Conference at Nairobi, Kenya (August 16th –24th 1980). Invited to the International Congress of the Unity of the Sciences at Miami, Florida, U.S.A (November 27th –30th 1980) Invited to the International Congress of the Unity of the Sciences at Seoul. South Korea (November 9th –13th 1981) Invited by the Cultural Branch of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt to tour archaeological sites and visit universities in Egypt (January 9th–15th 1983) Invited to read paper at Second World Conference of the Libyan People’s Jamahiriya in Sebha (March 7th – 11th 1989). Invited to read paper at Third World Conference of the Libyan People’s Jamahiriya in Tripoli (Oct. 28th – Nov. 3rd 1994). Invitee of the Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio Study Centre. (Nov.10-Dec.9th 1994). United States Information Service sponsored Visiting Postgraduate Scholar to American Studies and Research Center. Osmania University campus. Hyderabad (Dec/ 15th 1996 / Jan 5th 1997). Invited to Athens as Visiting Professor by Education Ministry of Greece (Dec. 1999 - Jan. 2000).

Addresses to Distinguished Associations (selected)

Green Book Sidelights on the Role Of Women in Plato’s Republic, Paper Read Before the Second World Congress of the Libyan People’s Jamahiriya in Sebha, (March 1987). Some Greek Mythological Motifs in the Mahavamsa, (Paper) Classical Association of Ceylon, (January 1988). King Kelanitissa’s Crime, (Paper) International Association of Historians of Asia, (August 1988). Knox on Elephants (Paper) Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, (June 1991). Of Mummies and Medicine, (Talk) Psychological Seminar, University of Peradeniya, No. 21 (August 1991). Holding the Demos together; Classical Dimensions of the Green Book Theory, Paper Read Before the Third World Congress of the Libyan People’s Jamahiriya in Tripoli (November 1994). Greek Motifs in the Jatakas, (Talk) Classical Association of Ceylon, (June 1995). Mummification in Ancient Egypt, (Talk with Slides) Alliance Francaise, Kandy, (August 1997). Some Observations on the Jatakas, (Talk) Dharmaraja Foundation Incorporated, Kandy, (November, 1997). Abusing the Elephant: Pseudo-Specification and Prognostication in Ancient Elephant Lore (Paper Presented at The National Symposium on Elephant Management and Conservation Held at The BMICH Colombo (May 29-30, 1998)

Professional Memberships (selected)

Life member. Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. Life member. Classical Association of Ceylon.

Research  Publications (selected)

Articles in English THE DANCING PEACOCK, ‘Loris’: Journal of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, vol. XX no. 6, (Dec. 1995.) p. 241 - 244. ANIMALS IN AESOP AND THE JATAKAS. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, vol. XXI, nos.1and 2 (1995) p. 57 - 87. THE JATAKA BODHISATTA, Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, vol. XXII, nos. 1 and 2 (1996) p.51-62 WILDLIFE IN THE JATAKA, ‘Loris’: Journal of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, vol. XXI no. 2, (1996 Dec.) p. 45 - 47. ILLISA’S BUMP AND AMPHITRYON’S BOWL (DIVINE IMPERSONATION IN A GREEK MYTH AND AN INDIAN JATAKA), Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, vol. XXIII, nos. 1 and 2, (1997), p. 65 – 75. ABUSING THE ELEPHANT, Pseudo-specification and Prognostication in Ancient Elephant Lore. Nature (September 1998) p. 61 - 65 and Gajah no. 20 (Jan. 2001) p. 51 - 59. ORPHEUS, RHESUS AND THE RETURN OF SOULS, Uvasara: Prof. Ananda S. Kulasuriya Felicitation Volume, (1999) p. 441 – 457. ARISTOTLE ON PYTHAGORAS: PORTRAIT OF THE GREEK BHAGAVAN Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, vol. XXIV and XXV1998-1999) p.218-230 REINCARNATION IN PLATO. Prof. Lily de Silva Felicitation Volume: University of Peradeniya (2002) p. 198 - 253. OF ELEPHANTS AND FROGS (Communication) 'Loris' Journal of the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, vol. XXII no.4 (Dec.2000) p.29-31. ARISTOTLE’S NOTICES ON THE ELEPHANT. ‘Gajah’, Journal of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group. No.22 (July 2003) p.71-75. Book Review: TAPROBANE : ANCIENT SRI LANKA AS KNOWN TO THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS by D.P.M.Weerakkody . Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. vol. XXVII and XXVIII (2001-2002) p.265-269. FIVE ROYAL SUICIDES, Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. vol. XXIX-XXX (2003-2004) p. 267-277. THE INUNDATION OF KELANIYA Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. vol. XXXI nos. 1 and 2 (2005) p. 24-33. GREEKS IN THE MAHAWAMSA Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities vol. XXXII nos. 1 and 2 (2006) p 1 - 22. A NOTE ON THE MOTIF OF THE SERIVANIJA JATAKA Accepted for publication in of Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities vol. XXXIII nos. 1 and 2 (2007).

Articles in Sinhala ADHYAPANAYA PILIBANDA PLATOGE DHARSHANAYA, Adhyapanaya (Sinhala issue of the Journal of the National Educational Society of Ceylon) (1967) p. 71 - 83. OEDIPUS RAJA: PURAKATHAVA, Vichithi (1966) p. 33 - 60. MILETUS HI ANAXIMENES Dharshanavadaya, vol. 2, no. 1 (1961 - 1962) p. 82 - 89. MILETUS HI ANAXIMANDER, Dharshanavadaya, vol. 1, no. 2 (1960) p. 16 - 25. MILETUS HI THALES, Dharshanavadaya, vol. 1, no. 1 (1960) p. 37 - 56. Several lengthy articles in Sinhala contributed to the SINHALESE ENCYCLOPAEDIA on Classical head-words. VIJAYA PURAVURTHIYA Prof. Anuradha Senevirathne Felicitation Volume, Colombo (2004) p.95-134. THUCYDIDES SAHA GREEKA ITHIHASIKA SAMPRADAYAYA, Ithihasaya Athithaya, ed. Ranaweera Leslie Gunawardana, Colombo (2005), p.13 – 45.

Books in Sinhala & English GREEKA HA ROMA LEKHANA (Translated into Sinhala from the original Greek and Latin, with introduction and notes by self, Colombo (Jointly 2000). THE BLACK LAND HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION OF ANCIENT EGYPT, Colombo (2000). PERENI MISARAYA (Translation of The Black Land into Sinhala) Jointly . Colombo (2000). GREEK MYTHS (Translation into English from the Latin with introduction and notes by self, of Hyginus' Fabulae) Colombo (2000). GREEKA MYTHYA KATHA (Translation into Sinhala from the Latin ,with introduction and notes by self,of Hyginus' Fabulae) Jointly. Colombo (2000). VIYAPATH VIYA (Translation into Sinhala from the Latin, with introduction and notes by self, of Cicero's De Senectute) Jointly. Colombo (2002). LUCIUS APULEIUSGE PARINAMAYAN (Raththaran Buruwa) (Translation into Sinhala .from the Latin with Introduction and notes by self, of Apuleius' The Golden Ass) Jointly. Colombo ,(2002). GREEK STORY MOTIFS IN THE JATAKAS. Colombo, (2003). MAHAVAMSA STUDIES: GREEK MYTH IN THE ANCIENT TRADITION. Colombo, (2004) MAHAVAMSA STUDIES: KANDULA: THE ELEPHANT AT WAR. Colombo (2005) ALEXANDER RAJUGE ASIRIMATH JEEWANA CHARITAYA. (Translation into Sinhala of The Alexander Romance from the Greek, with introduction and notes by self) Jointly, Colombo.(2004) ARGO NAVIYANGE VEERA CHARIKAVA (Translation into Sinhala from the Greek, with introduction and notes,of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautika.)Jointly. Colombo. ROMA KATHANDARA (Translation into Sinhala with introduction by self, of 65 stories from the Latin, of the Gesta Romanorum Jointly. Colombo (2007).