C. John Herington

C. John Herington (born November 23, 1924 in Isleworth , Middlesex , England , † March 29, 1997 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA ) was an American classical philologist of British origin.

life and work

Cecil John Herington studied Classical Philology at the University of Oxford . From 1946 to 1949 he suspended his studies to serve in the Royal Air Force . After the Bachelor's degree in 1949 he worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Oxford. From 1951 to 1959 he was a lecturer at the University of Manchester . From 1956 he taught at the same time at the University of Exeter . After obtaining his Masters degree from the University of Oxford in 1960, he went to Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts) as a visiting lecturer and has lived in North America ever since. From 1962 to 1965 he was Associate Professor of Classics at University College in Toronto .

In 1965 Herington went to the University of Texas at Austin as Professor of Classics . During this time he received several grants: 1966 from the University of Texas Research Institute, 1967 from the American Council of Learned Societies and 1968 from the Guggenheim Foundation . In the academic year 1969/70 he was Chairman of the Department of Classics. In 1972 he moved to Yale University , where he was appointed Professor of Classics and shortly thereafter also Talcott Professor of Greek. In the academic year 1970/71 he was Sather Professor at the University of Berkeley , from 1986 to 1988 substitute professor at Duke University . After his retirement in 1992, he retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 1994 he received an honorary doctorate from Adelphi University in New York .

Heringtons research focus was the Greek tragedy , especially of Aeschylus .

Athena Parthenos and Athena Polias. A Study in the Religion of Periclean Athens . Manchester 1955
The Author of the Prometheus Bound . Austin / London 1970
The Older Scholia on the Prometheus Bound . Leiden 1972
with James Scully: Prometheus Bound . New Haven 1975
with Thomas Gould: Greek Tragedy . Cambridge 1977
with Janet Lembke: Aeschylus, Persians . New York 1981
Poetry Into Drama: Early Tragedy and the Greek Poetic Tradition . Berkeley / Los Angeles 1985 ( Sather Classical Lectures 49)
Aeschylus . New Haven 1986

DS Carne-Ross: John Herington, 1924-1997 . In: Arion. A Journal of Humanities and the Classics . 3rd series, Volume 5, 1997, pp. 1-6.

personal data
SURNAME	Herington, C. John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Herington, Cecil John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Isleworth
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1997
Place of death	Chapel Hill, North Carolina