Thomas B. L. Webster

Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster (mostly TBL Webster ) (* July 3, 1905, † May 31, 1974 ) was a British classical scholar and classical archaeologist.

TBL Webster attended the Charterhouse School and then studied at Oxford University. Here he studied, among others However, archeology at John D. Beazley, his special interest was Menander and the Greek comedy. He tried to reconstruct the story of the most lost pieces of fragments and archaeological documents, especially vase painting.

As followers of William Moir Calder he was from 1931 to 1948 Hulme Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester. From 1948 to 1968 he was Chair of Greek at University College London, where he was co-founder in 1953 of the Institute of Classical Studies. After the death of his wife, the classical philologist Amy Marjorie Dale (1902-1967), he moved in 1967 to the United States and taught at Stanford University as Emeritus Professor of Classics.

Publications (selection)

  • An introduction to Sophocles. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1936
  • Greek art and literature 530-400 B.C. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1939
  • Studies in Menander. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1950
  • Studies in later Greek comedy. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1953
  • Art and literature in fourth century Athens. Athlone Press, London 1956
  • From Mycenae to Homer. A study in early Greek literature and art. Methuen, London, 1958 German: From Mycenae to Homer. Beginnings of Greek literature and art in the light of Linear B. Oldenbourg, München 1960
  • Reprints: Life in classical Athens. Batsford, London, 1978
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