George Patrick Goold

George Patrick Goold (born May 15, 1922 in London , † December 5, 2001 in Holyoke , Massachusetts ) was a British classical philologist with a focus on Latin studies .

Life

After attending St Clement Danes School, which was then still in London , Goold was drafted into military service in 1941 and most recently served as a codebreaker in Bletchley Park . He then began studying classics at University College London , completing a BA. In 1954 he received a Ph.D. from Otto Skutsch with a commentary on the first book of the Astronomica by the Latin poet Manilius and a translation of the entire Astronomica. PhD. In 1955 he took a first position as Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Townand gave his inaugural lecture on Afrikaans . From 1957 to 1960 he taught at the University of Manitoba , then until 1965 at University College , Toronto . The three major professorships of his career followed. From 1965 to 1973 he was Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University , where he was also Chairman of the Classics Department from 1971. In 1973 he went to University College London as Professor of Latin. In 1974 he became editor of the Loeb Classical Library , a position he held until 1999. From 1978 to 1992 he was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University .

In 1986 he was President of the American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies ) and in 1994 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy .

Research priorities

Goold's focus was the history of transmission and above all the textual criticism, especially of Latin, but occasionally also of Greek poetry, which resulted in a myriad of critical notes and various critical editions ( Catullus , Manilius, Ovid , Properz , Virgil ; in Greek the Roman des Chariton by Aphrodisias ). Goold is one of the Housmanians in the history of Anglo-Saxon philology.

Fonts (selection)

Text-critical editions

• Catullus. Edited with introduction, translation and commentary. Duckworth, London 1983 (with English translation).
  • German edition: Catullus, Complete Poems in Latin and German. Edited and commented by GP Goold. Newly translated by Carl Fischer. Afterword by Bernhard Kytzler . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1987.
• M. Manilii Astronomica . Teubner, Leipzig 1985, second revised edition 1998 (authoritative text-critical edition).
• Manilius, Astronomica . (= Loeb Classical Library. Volume 469). London 1977 (with English translation).
• Properties, Elegies (= Loeb Classical Library. Volume 18). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990 (with English translation).
• Chariton, Callirhoe (= Loeb Classical Library. Volume 481). Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 1995, ISBN 0-674-99530-9 (with English translation).
• Virgil, Aeneid VII-XII, Appendix Vergiliana. (= Loeb Classical Library. Volume L064N). With an English translation by HR Fairclough, revised by GP Goold. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2000 (with English translation) ..

Emphasis

• Richard Bentley , Epistola ad Joannem Millium. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1962 (reprinted with extensive introduction by GP Goold).

items

• Otto Skutsch 1906–1990 , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 87, 1994, 473–489, (online)

Web links

• Literature by and about George Patrick Goold in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Zeph Stewart : Professor GP Goold , in: The Independent, February 21, 2002
• Roll of Honor , Bletchley Park