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