Denys Page

Sir Denys Lionel Page FBA ( born May 11, 1908 in Reading, † July 6, 1978 in Tarset ) was a British classical scholar and papyrologist.

Life

Denys Lionel Page, the son of a railway engineer, visited the Newbury Grammar School and then studied at Christ Church (Oxford) Classical Philology ( with Gilbert Murray and John Dewar Denniston ). During his studies he won numerous awards and fellowships, including the Gaisford Prize for Greek poetry. In 1930, he became the first in Litterae Humaniores. After a year as Derby Scholar at the University of Vienna, where he deepened his studies at Ludwig Radermacher, he was hired as a lecturer in Christchurch, in the following year as a student and tutor, 1937 as Junior Censor.

Page 1950, was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University and employed at Trinity College. From 1959 to 1973 he was also a master of Jesus College. 1974 Page joined in retirement. The British Academy belonged to Page since 1952. In 1969 he received the Kenyon Medal, 1971-1974, he served as president of the Academy. In recognition of his services he was knighted in 1971.

In his research, Page employed with a wide range of Greek literature. His focus was on the archaic and classical Greek poetry, especially lyric poetry, tragedy, epic, epigram and pentameter. He published critical editions of various poets. The poetarum lesbiorum fragmenta be quoted with his name and that of his colleague Edgar Lobel.

Writings

  • Medea / Euripides. The text ed with introduction and commentary. Oxford 1938. Second, revised edition Oxford 1955. Reprint 1985
  • Alcman: the Partheneion. Oxford 1951
  • A new chapter in the history of Greek tragedy. London et al 1951
  • Corinna. London 1953
  • Sappho and Alcaeus, an introduction to the study of ancient Lesbian poetry. Oxford 1955
  • Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmentary. Oxford 1955
  • Agamemnon / ed by the late John Dewar Denniston and Denys Page. Oxford 1957
  • History and the Homeric Iliad. Berkeley in 1959. Paperback, Berkeley 1963
  • Poetae Melici Graeci: Alcmanis, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Simonidis, Corinnae, poetarum minorum Reliquias, carmina popularia et convivialia quaeque adespota feruntur. Oxford 1962
  • The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic epigrams. Two volumes, London 1965. Reprint 1968
  • Lyrica Graeca Selecta. Oxford 1968. Reprint 2004
  • The Greek anthology: the Garland of Philip, and some contemporary epigrams. London 1968
  • The Santorini volcano and the desolation of Minoan Crete. London 1970
  • Aeschyli septem quae super sunt tragoedias. Oxford 1972. Reprint 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-814570-7
  • Supplementum Lyricis Graecis: poetarum Lyricorum Graecorum fragmenta quae recens innotuerunt. Oxford 1974
  • Epigrammata Graeca. Oxford 1975. Reprint 2000
  • The epigrams of Rufinus. Cambridge 1978
  • Further Greek epigrams: epigrams before A.D. 50 from the Greek anthology and other sources, not included in ' Hellenistic epigrams ' or 'The Garland of Philip '. Cambridge, 1981 ( posthumously edited by Roger D. Dawe and James Diggle )
  • Malcolm Davies: poetarum melicorum Graecorum fragmenta post DL Page. Oxford 1991. ISBN 0-19-814581-0
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