Obituaries
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David Furley was one of the 20th century’s outstanding scholars of Greco-Roman philosophy. The quantity of Furley’s published output is perhaps modest by today’s standards. But virtually every item is a gem, and many have become classics. He was educated at Nottingham High School and at Jesus College Cambridge, where he became an Honorary Fellow.…
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Samuel M. Paley, Ph. D, an internationally known archaeologist who frequently took University at Buffalo students on digs in the Middle East, died of brain cancer March 31 in his New York City home. He was 68. Dr. Paley, who led the most recent excavation last summer, had been on leave from the university since…
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This is Susan Treggiari’s obituary of Dr. Wells as it appeared in the Canadian Classical Bulletin (used with permission): Colin Wells died on 11 March, at Bangor in North Wales, with his family around him, after a short illness. He was born on 15 November 1933. After Nottingham High School, where he was very well…
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From the Northern Echo: FORMER colleagues will join family and friends at Durham Cathedral for the funeral of a respected classics academic next week.Professor Gavin Townend died following a recent illness at Hallgarth Nursing Home, in Durham City, on Saturday, aged 90. A widower, he survived his wife, Elspeth, by ten years.Their daughter, Julia, who…
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Kathryn Thomas was the person to go to if you ever needed an ancient recipe, a translation of a Roman tomb inscription or a tour of Grecian antiquities. Thomas, an associate professor at Creighton University, spent a lifetime studying and teaching the classics to students young and old. She died of cancer Wednesday at a…
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