Edward J. Kenney

Edward John Kenney FBA (born February 29, 1924 in London - † December 23, 2019 ) was a British classical philologist and Ovid specialist.

Life

During World War II , Kenney did military service with the Royal Signals in Great Britain and India from 1943 to 1946 . After studying at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, he worked from 1951 as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Leeds , from 1952 as a Research Fellow at Trinity College. From 1953 to 1991 he was a fellow of the Peterhouse . He continued to teach at the University of Cambridge, from 1955 as Assistant Lecturer , from 1960 as Lecturer , from 1970 as Reader in Literature and Textual Criticism . In 1967/1968 the University of California, Berkeley invited him as Sather Professor of Classical Literature .

From 1974 to 1982 Kenney Kennedy was Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge. After early retirement, he remained a fellow at Peterhouse College until 1991.

Kenney was Associate Editor of the Classical Quarterly from 1959 to 1965 and Associate Editor of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics since 1970 . He has been a full member of the British Academy since 1968 and an external member of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1976 .

Research priorities

Kenney turned to the poet Ovid and other Latin authors ( Appendix Vergiliana , Lucretius , Apuleius ) primarily in terms of editorial philosophy, but also in a literary interpretation .

Fonts

monograph

• The Classical Text. Aspects of Editing in the Age of the Printed Book (1974, Italian translation 1995)

Editorships

• with Patricia E. Easterling (ed.), Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (1970ff.)
• (Ed.), Cambridge History of Classical Literature II (1982)

Editions and translations

• P Ouidi Nasonis Amores etc (ed. 1961, 2nd ed. 1995; Oxford Classical Texts ).
• Ovidiana Graeca (ed. With PE Easterling, 1965),
• Appendix Vergiliana (ed. With WV Clausen, FRD Goodyear, JA Richmond, 1966),
• Lucretius De Rerum Natura III (ed. 1971, 2nd ed. 2014),
• The Plowman's Lunch (Vergil, Moretum) (1984),
• Ovid, Metamorphoses (introduction and notes, 1985),
• Ovid, The Love Poems (introduction and notes, 1990),
• Apuleius, Cupid & Psyche (ed. 1990),
• Ovid, Sorrows of an Exile (introduction and notes, 1992),
• Ovid, Heroides XVI-XXI (ed. 1996),
• Apuleius, The Golden Ass (trans, introduction and notes, 1998),
• Ovidio Metamorfosi Vol IV (libri VII-IX) (2011)

literature

• International Who's Who . 63rd Edition (2000), p. 817

Web links

• Entry in Debrett's
• Photography , in: The Times, February 29, 2012