Background
He was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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Based on the second revised edition of 1950, with translations into English of a large number of passages left in the original Greek in the second edition. Also includes a short glossary of less familiar terms and small changes in the text to help the reader who knows no Greek.
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Analysing six Greek tragedies - the Orestes triology, Ajax, Antigone and Philoctetes - and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic forms and one on religious drama. This is an important work from an author respected for a constructive and sensitive quality of criticism.
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university professor classical philologist
He was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Street John"s College.
He was educated at The Crypt School, Gloucester, and Saint John"s College, Cambridge. He wrote his doctorate in 1920 at the University of Bristol. He became a Lecturer in Greek at the University of Glasgow from 1920 to 1944.
On that year, he returned to the University of Bristol where he became Professor of Greek and emeritus in 1962.
He concentrated on studies of Greek tragedy, producing also translations of works of Sophocles. His early book, "In the Mountains of Greece", describes his journeys in that country, with no more than incidental reference to antiquity.
His 1952 general treatment The Greeks covered the whole range of ancient Greek culture, and became a standard text. After his retirement, he taught at College Year in Athens (CYA), a study abroad program for foreign students in Athens, Greece.
( Analysing six Greek tragedies - the Orestes triology, A...)
(Based on the second revised edition of 1950, with transla...)