Donald William Lucas
Donald William Lucas (* 1905 ; † 1985 ) was a British Graecist .
Lucas was a Fellow of King's College , Cambridge , and the third Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge University from 1952 to 1969 (his successor, the fourth and final Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader, was John Chadwick , who retired in 1984).
Lucas worked on Greek tragedy and the poetics of Aristotle . It is thanks to him that the Clarendon Press commentaries on Aristotle's poetics , which have been reprinted repeatedly . He also supervised productions of the frogs of Aristophanes and the Agamemnon of Aeschylus in Cambridge.
Fonts
- Euripides. In: The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1970.
- (Ed.): Aristotle, Poetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968, reprinted with improvements 1972, reprinted 1978 and as paperback 1980.
- The Greek tragic poets. Cohen & West, London 1959.
- (Ed.): The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. The Greek Text performed at Cambridge, February 1953. With a verse Translation by Sir John Sheppard and an introduction by DW Lucas. Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge 1952. - Review by PG Mason, in: The Journal of Hellenic Studies 74, 1954, p. 196, (online)
- (Ed., With Francis Julian Alford Cruso): The Frogs: The Greek Text as Arranged for Performance at Cambridge February, 1947. Bowes, Cambridge 1936.
Web links
- Donald William Lucas (with a photograph of a bust)
- philpapers: Directory of essays and reviews by Lucas
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lucas, Donald William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Graecist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1985 |