From the Telegraph: Sir Kenneth Dover, who died on March 7 aged 89, was considered the finest Greek scholar of his generation and seemed to have led a life of almost oppressive decorum, crowned in 1978 by his election as President of the British Academy. But in 1994 he published an autobiography, Marginal Comment, which [...]

(no English obituary has appeared; tip o’ the pileus to Michael Metcalfe): E’ morto Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, napoletano, storico dell’antichità di fama mondiale e personaggio insigne della cultura europea. Aveva 99 anni, essendo nato a Napoli nell’aprile del 1911. Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli ha dato un contributo decisivo allo studio del mondo egeo-anatolico in età minoica [...]

Seen on the Classics list: Translation is an art form worthy of academic criticism, Donald S. Carne-Ross argued in literary essays, but as a reader he preferred a writer’s own words, even if they were written in ancient Greek. “To get really close to a poem is possible only if one is reading it in [...]

Not sure we’ll see an obituary, so here’s the (updated) Wikipedia article. Hans Henning Ørberg | Wikipedia.

Professor David John Furley, 87, of Charlbury, United Kingdom, formerly of Princeton, died January 26 after a long illness in Banbury Hospital, Banbury, United Kingdom. A former chairman of Princeton University’s Department of Classics, he was the first classicist to receive the University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, winning the [...]

My Ph.D. supervisor … a very patient man with a legendary book collection. This is Dr Michele George’s obituary from the Canadian Classical Bulletin: George McKay Paul (1927-2010) Professor Emeritus of Classics, George Paul, died at home on Monday, February 15, 2010.  Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he graduated from Oxford (BA, MA), where he studied [...]

From the Press-Citizen: Roger Allen Hornsby, emeritus professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, died Tuesday morning at his home in Iowa City. He was 83. Cremation has taken place. The remains will be interred in Toronto with those of his wife Jessie. A memorial service will take place in Iowa City, with time [...]

From the Telegraph: Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, the former Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, who died on October 5 aged 87, was a gatekeeper for a particular style of traditional scholarship and one of the foremost classical scholars of his generation; his imposing output of scholarly works ranged across the fields of Greek [...]

Seen on various lists (from the Daily Hampshire Gazette): Elizabeth Lyding Will, Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College, died peacefully on Aug. 19, 2009, at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst. She was 85 years old. Considered the world authority on the ancient Roman shipping containers called amphoras, [...]

From the Detroit Free Press: Thousands of Latin students around the country learned the language from the voice of someone they never met: former educator Edith Kovach. Her enthusiasm and dedication in her Latin and Greek teachings endeared her in the hearts and minds of students and faculty alike. A onetime chairwoman of the University [...]

From Wicked Local Newton: Former students remember Bob Mitchell as much for his stories and mystery that surrounded him as for the language they learned from him. “He was one of the most brilliant people I have ever met, and also by far the most enigmatic,” said Arielle Weisman, who graduated from North in 2003 [...]

From the Otago Daily Times: Dr Douglas Little, an influential classics teacher who retired from the University of Otago classics department as an associate professor in 1987, has died in Dunedin after a long illness. He was in his mid-70s. Dr Little, who at one stage was the department’s only New Zealand-born staff member, had [...]

From the News-Gazette: Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Thomas Scanlan as an enthusiastic and outstanding teacher who brought the world of Latin and classical mythology to life for a generation of University of Illinois students. Mr. Scanlan, 81, of Champaign, died at 1:14 a.m. Sunday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Funeral arrangements were incomplete [...]

In case you missed it in one of the other sources, David Parsons — of ARLT fame — recently completed his c.v.. His son has written a very moving blogpost at David’s erstwhile blog … worth a read. Another online colleague whom I never met who will be missed …

From the Plain Dealer: The Rev. Frank Lihvar, 81, who died Thursday, taught Latin and Greek at John Carroll University for the past 38 years, eight of them after officially retiring. The Cleveland native and 60-year Jesuit graduated from Benedictine High School, West Baden College of Indiana and the University of Chicago, where he earned [...]

From the Independent: Jill Braithwaite established a European reputation in archaeology for her study and interpretation of Roman face pots. Before she started her research, these strange pots had turned up singly or in very small groups throughout the Roman Empire but, with a few exceptions, they had remained isolated and uninterpreted finds. After 15 [...]