Obituaries
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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…
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Classics Professor Emerita Margaret Reesor passed away Thursday, January 21. Professor Reesor started teaching in Queen’s department of classics in 1961.She was greatly admired as a teacher in a wide range of classical subjects, including Greek language, literature, and philosophy, and the Latin writers Cicero, Lucretius, Vergil, and Seneca, and as a much-published authority on…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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