Colin William MacLeod

Colin William MacLeod (born June 26, 1943 in Edinburgh , † December 17, 1981 ) was a British classical philologist .

After preparation by the Headmaster of the Rugby Public School , AN Saunders, MacLeod, at the early age of sixteen, won a scholarship to Balliol College , Oxford , where he began studying Classical Philology in 1961 . There he came into close contact with Gordon Williams and Eduard Fraenkel . After graduating, MacLeod received a Woodhouse Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College in 1966 , where he was coined by Donald Russell . In 1968 he became a lecturer, in 1969 a student and tutor at Christ Church College, succeeding John Gould . MacLeod was married to the Italian Barbara Montagna.

MacLeod began his scientific path with work on the church father Gregory of Nyssa and the mysticism of Plato , Plotinus and the church fathers , behind which the unfinished project of an edition of Gregory's life of Moses stood. As a student of Eduard Fraenkel , MacLeod then dealt primarily with Horace , but also with the Greek tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides . A masterpiece is the concise commentary on the final book of Homer's Iliad for Cambridge University Press .

Fonts

• Ανάλυσις: A Study in Ancient Mysticism. In: Journal of Theological Studies ns 21 (1970) 43-55. = Collected Essays , 292-304.
• Allegory and Mysticism in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. In: Journal of Theological Studies ns 22 (1971) 362-379. = Collected Essays , 309-326.
• L'Unità dell'Orestea . In: Maia ns 25, 1973, 267-292.
• A Use of Myth in Ancient Poetry (Cat. 68; Hor. Od. 3.27; Theoc. 7; Prop. 3.15) . In: Classical Quarterly ns 24 (1974) 82-93. = Collected Essays , 159-170.
• Euripides' rags. In: ZPE 15 (1974) 221-222. = Collected Essays , 47-48.
• Callimachus, Virgil, propertius, and Lollius (Horace, Epistles 1.18.39-66). In: ZPE 23 (1976) 41-43. = Collected Essays , 215-217.
• Bathos in 'Longinus' and Methodius. In: Journal of Theological Studies ns 27 (1976) 413-414. = Collected Essays , 327-328.
• The Poet, The Critic, and The Moralist: Horace, Epistles 1.19. In: Classical Quarterly ns 27 (1977) 359-376. = Collected Essays , 262-279.
• Horace and the Sibyl (Epode 16.2). In: Classical Quarterly ns 29 (1979) 220-221. = Collected Essays , 218-218.
• Horatian Imitatio and Odes 2.5. In: Creative Imitation and Latin Literature. Ed. by DA West and A. Woodman. Cambridge 1979, 89-102. = Collected Essays , 245-261.
• Ethics and Poetry in Horace's Odes (1.20; 2.3). In: Greece and Rome 26 (1979) 21-31. = Collected Essays , 225-235.
• The Poetry of Ethics: Horace, Epistles 1. In: Journal of Roman Studies 69 (1979) 16-27. = Collected Essays , 280-291.
• Euripides' Rags Again. In: ZPE 29 (1980) 6. = Collected Essays , 48.
• Ethics and Poetry in Horace's Odes: II (1.7; 2.9). In: Greece and Rome 28 (1981) 141-149. = Collected Essays , 236-244.
• Horace and His Lyric Models: A Note on Epode 9 and Odes 1.37. In: Hermes 110 (1982) 371-375. = Collected Essays , 220-224.
• The Preface to Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses. In: Journal of Theological Studies ns 33 (1982) 183-191. = Collected Essays , 329-337.
• Homer: Iliad, Book XXIV . Edited by CW MacLeod. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982, ISBN 0-52124353-X , Google Books [1]
• Collected essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.

literature

• Hugh Lloyd-Jones : Colin William Macleod (26. 6. 43 - 17. 12. 81) † , in: Gnomon 54, 1982, 413–415 [2]

Web links

• Short biography bibliography, Oxford University Press