Background
He was born in Valparaíso, Chile, to Dorothy and Kenneth Johnston.
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Education
He was educated at McGill University, Montreal (Bachelor of Science in Geology and Chemistry 1959). At the University of Bristol (Bachelor in English and Greek, 1968). And at the University of Toronto (Master of Arts in English, 1969).
He also holds certificates from Ontario College of, Heidelberg University, and the Jarvis School of Welding.
Career
Johnston taught high-school physics and chemistry at Upper Canada College, Toronto (1959-1960) and high-school biology, mathematics, and Latin at Portuguese Perry High School, Portuguese Perry, Ontario (1961-1963). From 1969-1970 he taught undergraduate English courses at the University of British Columbia. After that he joined the faculty of the College of New Caledonia, Prince George, British Columbia, where he taught undergraduate English and Classics from 1970 to 1975.
From 1975-2004 he taught at Malaspina College and Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo (now Vancouver Island University).
Aeschylus, Oresteia Aeschylus, Persians Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus, Suppliant Women Aristophanes, Birds Aristophanes, Clouds Aristophanes, Frogs Aristophanes, Knights Aristophanes, Lysistrata Aristophanes, Peace Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Abridged) Cuvier, On the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth Diderot, Doctorate’Alembert’s Dream Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew Descartes, Discourse on Method Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Euripides, Bacchae Euripides, Electra Euripides, Medea Euripides, Orestes Homer, Iliad (complete and abridged) Homer, Odyssey (complete and abridged) Kafka, Metamorphosis, Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Kant, On Perpetual Peace Kant, Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy, Volume I Lucretius, The Nature of Things Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History for Ovid, Metamorphoses Rousseau, On the Sciences and the Arts Rousseau, On the Origin of Inequality Rousseau, Social Contract Sophocles, Ajax Sophocles, Antigone Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles, Oedipus the King Sophocles, Philoctetes All of Ian Johnston’s translations, lectures, reviews, and workbooks are available on his website johnstonia.
