Mervin R. Dilts

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Mervin R. Dilts (born February 26, 1938 in Flemington , New Jersey ) is an American classical philologist .

Life

Mervin Robert Dilts studied at Gettysburg College ( BA 1960) and at Indiana University Bloomington , where he received his Masters in 1961 and his PhD in 1964 . He then worked as an Assistant Professor at Knox College and from 1965 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he was appointed Associate Professor in 1969. From 1971 to 1979 he was also the Financial Trustee of the American Philological Association . In 1979 he moved to New York University as Professor of Classics , where he was active in teaching and research until his retirement . Since then he has been a Fellow of Lincoln College (Oxford) , where he founded the Dilts-Lyell Research Fellowship in Greek palaeography .

Dilts is particularly concerned with Greek rhetoric . His studies on textual criticism and the history of transmission resulted in several critical editions , each of which replaced outdated editions. He edited the Politiae des Herakleides Lembos (1971), the Varia Historia des Claudius Aelianus (1974), the speeches of Aeschines (1997) and Demosthenes (2002–2009). He also published the scholia for Demosthenes and Aeschines.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Manuscript Tradition of Aelian's Varia Historia and Heraclides' Politiae with a Text of Heraclides . Bloomington 1964 (dissertation; excerpts published in: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association . Volume 96, 1965, pp. 57-72)
  • Heraclidis Lembi Excerpta Politiarum . Durham (NC) 1971
  • Claudii Aeliani Varia Historia . Leipzig 1974
  • Scholia Demosthenica . Two volumes, Leipzig 1983–1986
  • Scholia in Aeschinem . Stuttgart / Leipzig 1992
  • Aeschinis orationes . Stuttgart 1997
  • with George Alexander Kennedy: Two Greek rhetorical treatises from the Roman Empire: introduction, text, and translation of the Arts of rhetoric, attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara Leiden 1997
  • Librorum Graecorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae index a Nicolao de Maioranis compositus et Fausto Saboeo collatus anno 1533 . Rome 1998
  • Demosthenis Orationes . Four volumes, Oxford 2002–2009

literature

  • Directory of American scholars . 10th edition (2001), p. 129
personal data
SURNAME Dilts, Mervin R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dilts, Mervin Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Flemington, New Jersey