Roberto Salinas Price was born in Mexico City where he currently resides with his wife. He receieved an education in the trivium and quadrivium with "The Hundred Great Books" programme at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. Professionally, he was, like the son of Teuthras of Arisbe, a profligate would-be hoteliere in search of Homeric Questions. He says, cum grano salis, that the illustrious name of his ancestors is mentioned by Homer (Iliad: II, 856).

He has been a Homeric scholar since 1964 and holds to the hypothesis that the Ilios and Ithaka of which the Iliad and Odyssey speak are archaeological sites to be found in Croatia's Dalmatian Coast. He has written Homer's Blind Audience (1984), published in Belgrade as Homerova Slepa Publika (1985), and an Atlas of Homeric Geography (1992), rewritten in Spanish as Atlas de geografía homérica (2001).

He and his wife have visited many places of the now ex-Yugoslavia numerous times. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, and has translated Theory and History of L. von Mises and For the New Intellectual of A. Rand into Spanish. Besides being an ardent promoter of free market doctrines, he favours a new model of government for Mexico made up of a President elected from among a College of Regents, itself elected to office by popular vote.