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Lloyd-Jones, Hugh was born on September 21, 1922 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. Son of William and Norah Leila (Jefferd) Lloyd-J.
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"Lloyd-Jones here considers, in its general character, the outlook of early Greek religion from the Homeric poems to the end of the fifth century, through and analysis of what he takes to be its central constituent, the concept of Dike. The "justice of Zeus" turns out to be two things, the first basic, the second subsidiary: (1) something like natural law or "the divinely appointed order of the universe," an order not always or even usually open to human scrutiny, and (2) moral law, a concession to the insignificant creatures of a day that men are, whereby Zeus "punishes, late or soon, a man who has done injustice to another, either in his own person or in that of his descendants." Because Lloyd-Jones sees the first and basic notion of Dike as the prerequisite of the later rational speculation to which it led (smoothly and without violent discontinuities, as he claims), his book assumes the dimensions of Kulturgeschichte Griechenlands, and becomes the latest in a small but distinguished list of works with similarly broad scope . . ." From: Review The Justice of Zeus by Hugh Lloyd-Jones Review by: John Peradotto The Classical Journal Vol. 70, No. 3 (Feb. - Mar., 1975) , pp. 61-68 Published by: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South
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Writing of historical interpretation the great German classical scholar U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff once compared it with the Homeric picture of ghosts revived by the blood of the living -- warning that in the very process of revival the ghosts inevitably absorb an alien element. In this wide-ranging collection Professor Hugh Lloyd-Jones looks at the influence of the Greeks on creative thinkers and scholars since the close of the eighteenth century, when for the first time, largely as a result of German scholarship, the Greeks began to be studied directly, rather than through Roman eyes. The men discussed range from Coleridge, Leopardi, Gladstone, Wagner and Nietzsche to scholars of our own day such as Edouard Fraenkel, Rudolf Pfeiffer and E. R. Dodds.
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This volume is a companion to the new text of Sophocles, published as part of the Oxford Classical Texts series. The editors present their views on a large number of controversial passages in the plays to provide an illuminating survey of Sophoclean scholarship, and a detailed textual analysis.
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In this sequel to BLOOD FOR THE GHOSTS AND CLASSICAL SURVIVALS, Hugh Lloyd-Jones treats many topics in the study of the ancient world. The subjects range from Homer and Pindar to the pioneering work of modern scholars such as Scaliger, Gilbert Murray, Dean Inge and Edgar Lobel and the relevance (or lack of relevance) of psychoanalysis to a proper interpretation of classical thought and literature. A final chapter, from which the title of the collection derives, gives a new assessment of the place of Greek learning in the world today.
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Lloyd-Jones, Hugh was born on September 21, 1922 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. Son of William and Norah Leila (Jefferd) Lloyd-J.
Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1947. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Chicago, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Tel Aviv, 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Thessalonica University, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Göttingen, 2002.
He pursued undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Christ Church, Oxford. His studies were interrupted by the Second World War, during which he learned Japanese and served in the Intelligence Corps in India, turning down the opportunity to work at Bletchley Park in order to serve in Burma. He ended the War as a Captain.
Lloyd-Jones took a first degree in Greats in 1948 and gained several University prizes.
In 1951 Lloyd-Jones returned to Oxford where he became the first holder of the East. P. Warren Praelectorship at Corpus. Lloyd-Jones supervised many distinguished Doctorate. Philosophy. students, including Martin Litchfield West.
In his inaugural address as Regius Professor in 1961 he called for a reduction in the emphasis laid on composition taught to undergraduates and suggested that Honour Moderations might have to be reformed to encompass studies taken from ancient philosophy and history as well as the traditional literature and language. He contributed editions of Menander"s Dyscolus (1960) and of Sophocles (1990, together with Nigel Wilson) to the Oxford Classical Texts, and editions and translations of the Aeschylean fragments (1960) and of Sophocles (2000) to the Loeb Classical Library.
His retirement from the Regius Chair in 1989, after twenty-nine years, was marked by a knighthood.
( "Lloyd-Jones here considers, in its general character, ...)
( "Lloyd-Jones here considers, in its general character, ...)
(In this sequel to BLOOD FOR THE GHOSTS AND CLASSICAL SURV...)
(This volume is a companion to the new text of Sophocles, ...)
(Writing of historical interpretation the great German cla...)
(Book by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Peter Parsons)
North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts]
Lloyd-Jones was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1966 and was a member of five foreign academies, holding honorary doctorates from the universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, Göttingen and Thessaloniki.
Married Frances E. Hedley, 1953 (divorced 1981). Children: Edmund Stephen, Ralph Alexander, Antonia. Married Mary R. Lefkowitz, 1982.