Gordon Willis Williams

Gordon Willis Williams (born March 19, 1926 in Dublin , † August 28, 2010 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

Williams studied Classics (Classical Philology, Ancient History and Archeology ) at Trinity College of the University of Dublin , where 1947 he the Bachelor - and in 1948 the Master degree attained. Then, Williams worked from 1948 to 1951 as Assistant Lecturer at King's College London , from 1951 to 1953 as a lecturer at University College, Cardiff , and from 1953 to 1962 as a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol College of Oxford University . Here he completed a second master's degree in 1953.

From 1963 Williams was Professor of Humanity at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research and teaching activities also took him abroad: in 1969 he was visiting professor at the University of Indiana and in 1972/1973 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1974 Williams followed a call to Yale University , where he worked until his retirement as Thacher Professor of Latin Literature .

Williams studied Roman poetry (especially Horace and Virgil ) and the culture on which it was based.

Fonts (selection)

• Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968.
• The third book of Horace's "Odes". Edited with translation and running commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1969, ISBN 0-19-912001-3 .
• The Nature of Roman Poetry (= Oxford Paperbacks University Series. Vol. 49). Oxford University Press, Oxford 1970, ISBN 0-19-888049-9 ( Abbreviated and simplified version of Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry. 1968).
• Horace (= Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics. Vol. 6, ISSN  0533-2451 ). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972
• Change and Decline. Roman Literature in the Early Empire (= Sather Classical Lectures . Vol. 45). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1978, ISBN 0-520-03333-7 .
• Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1980, ISBN 0-300-02456-8 .
• What is happening to interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid? (= Todd Memorial Lecture 9th). University of Sydney, Sydney 1982, ISBN 0-86758-069-0 .
• Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1983, ISBN 0-300-02852-0 .

Web links

• Obituary of Gordon Willis Williams (english)