Roger Mynors

university professor classical philologist

July 28, 1903 (age 86)

Wiltshire, South West England, United Kingdom

He was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-1926), winning the university"s Hertford and Craven scholarships. He was a fellow and classical tutor at Balliol from 1927 until 1944 (with an interval of war work at the Treasury), when he moved to Cambridge as Kennedy Professor of Latin. In 1953 he returned to Oxford as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin. He retired in 1970. He was well known for authoritative editions of Latin texts, but he was also active in other fields. He played a major part in the early years of the series Nelson"s (later Oxford) Medieval Texts, himself contributing an edition of Bede"s Ecclesiastical History. He was an expert on Latin manuscripts and produced important catalogues. He was knighted in 1963. He received honorary degrees from four British universities and from the University of Toronto. He served as president of the Classical Association in 1966. R. A. B. R. A. B. R. A. B. Mynors (post: with a pref by RGM Nisbet), Virgil Georgics, edited with a commentary by R. A. B. M.

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university professor classical philologist

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Mynors was educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, and then at Eton.

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He was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-1926), winning the university"s Hertford and Craven scholarships. He was a fellow and classical tutor at Balliol from 1927 until 1944 (with an interval of war work at the Treasury), when he moved to Cambridge as Kennedy Professor of Latin. In 1953 he returned to Oxford as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin.

He retired in 1970.

He was well known for authoritative editions of Latin texts, but he was also active in other fields. He played a major part in the early years of the series Nelson"s (later Oxford) Medieval Texts, himself contributing an edition of Bede"s Ecclesiastical History. He was an expert on Latin manuscripts and produced important catalogues.

He was knighted in 1963.

He received honorary degrees from four British universities and from the University of Toronto. He served as president of the Classical Association in 1966.

R. A. B. R. A. B. R. A. B. Mynors (post: with a pref by RGM Nisbet), Virgil Georgics, edited with a commentary by R. A. B. M.

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Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1944, he was an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Istituto di Studi Romani.

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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities]

He was also a skilled translator who was a member of the Literary Committee for the New English Bible.

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