Classicists
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The ‘regular’ obituary in anticipation of something more formal later: Robert BUCK
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The Classics Confidential folks talk with Bernard Frischer: … if you’d like a bit more background on the interview, visit CC’s site: Rome Reborn, with Bernard Frischer
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The Center for Hellenic Studies is marking the centennial of Albert Lord’s birth with a collection of online resources related to his work. Here’s the introductory blurb from Gregory Nagy: As one of Albert Lord’s former students, it gives me great pleasure to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth on Sept. 15, 1912. As…
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From the Times-Dispatch: John Luster Brinkley, retired classics professor and historian at Hampden-Sydney College, could recall interesting stories about the school partly because he witnessed so much of its modern history. In 1959, before he graduated as valedictorian of his class, a fire erupted in a campus building that had been condemned. Rumor had it…
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The incipit of a lengthy biography at the Poetry Foundation: Poet, editor, and translator Daryl Hine was born in 1936 in British Columbia. He studied Classics and philosophy at McGill University, and he earned his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. The editor of Poetry from 1968-78, Hine was also a highly…