Nicholas Horsfall

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Nicholas Horsfall (born September 19, 1946 in London , † January 1, 2019 ) was a British classical philologist and Virgil specialist.

Life

Nicholas Horsfall was the son of Tom Horsfall, a staff officer in the Royal Navy, and Sophie (Sonia) Szapiro.

Horsfall attended Westminster School , followed by studies at Peterhouse , Cambridge and Corpus Christi College , Oxford, where he was awarded a DPhil in 1971. received his doctorate . His main academic teachers were Edward J. Kenney and Charles Oscar Brink in Cambridge , Eduard Fraenkel , Robin GM Nisbet and, above all, Margaret Hubbard in Oxford .

Horsfall then taught at University College London from 1971 to 1987, after which he was a private scholar in Italy from 1987 to 2000, particularly in Rome, where he lived with his Italian wife. After returning to Great Britain, he first settled in Oxfordshire, and in 2003 he moved back to the northern Highlands of Scotland. Most recently, Horsfall taught as an honorary professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham .

Horsfall wrote numerous articles about Horace , Sallust , Cornelius Nepos , Petron and other authors of Roman literature and Roman culture. Nevertheless, Virgil Horsfall was undisputed favorite author, for whose oeuvre he was considered one of the leading interpreters worldwide. His comments on individual books by Virgils Aeneis have received wide attention , such as Book 7 (1995), Book 11 (2003), Book 3 (2006), Book 2 (2008) and Book 6 (2013).

Monographs

  • (with Jan N. Bremmer ): Roman myth and mythography (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London. Supplement 52). London 1987.
  • (Ed.): Vir bonus discendi peritus. Studies in celebration of Otto Skutsch 's eightieth birthday (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London. Supplement 51). London 1988.
  • Cornelius Nepos. A selection ... translated with introduction and commentary . Oxford 1989.
  • Virgilio: l'epopea in alambicco . Naples 1991.
    • English version: The Epic Distilled. Studies in the Composition of the Aeneid. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2016.
  • La villa sabina di Orazio. Il galateo della gratitudine . Venosa 1993.
  • (Ed. And main author): A companion to the study of Virgil . Leiden 1995, reprinted with Corrigenda and Addenda, Leiden undated [2000].
  • La cultura della plebs romana . Barcelona 1996.
    • English version: The Culture of the Roman plebs. London 2003.
  • Aeneid 7. A commentary (= Mnemosyne . Supplementary volume 198). Leiden 1995, reprint 2000.
  • Aeneid 11. A commentary (= Mnemosyne. Supplement volume 244). Leiden 2003.
  • Aeneid 3. A commentary (= Mnemosyne. Supplement volume 273). Leiden 2006.
  • Aeneid 2. A commentary (= Mnemosyne. Supplement volume 299). Leiden 2008.
  • Aeneid 6. A commentary. Berlin 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Sonia Horsfall , in: The Independent, November 23, 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Horsfall, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist and Virgil specialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 2019