Nigel Guy Wilson

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Nigel Guy Wilson FBA (born July 23, 1935 in London ) is a British classical scholar .

Nigel Guy Wilson studied at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford ( MA 1957) and then worked as a lecturer at Merton College at the same university. In 1962 he moved to Lincoln College as a Fellow and Tutor , where he worked until his retirement (2002). In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University and in 2015 the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies .

Wilson deals with Greek literature from ancient times to the Renaissance. His research interests include Greek tragedy and comedy , Greek palaeography and the reception and transmission of ancient literature among the Byzantines . He published authoritative text editions on Sophocles and Aristophanes .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Dimitrije I. Stefanović: Manuscripts of Byzantine chant in Oxford . Oxford 1963
  • An anthology of Byzantine prose . Berlin / New York 1971. ISBN 3-11-001898-5
  • Mediaeval Greek bookhands: examples selected from Greek manuscripts in Oxford libraries . Cambridge 1973
  • with Donald Andrew Russell : Menander Rhetor: a commentary . Oxford 1981
  • Scholars of Byzantium . London 1983. Revised edition, Cambridge 1996
  • Aelian / Historical Miscellany . 1997 ( Loeb Classical Library ). ISBN 0-674-99535-X
  • with Hugh Lloyd-Jones : Sophoclis fabulae . Oxford 1990 ( Oxford Classical Texts ). ISBN 0198145772
  • with Leighton Durham Reynolds : Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford 1968. Second edition, Oxford 1975. Third edition, Oxford 1991 (translations into French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Polish)
  • From Byzantium to Italy: Greek studies in the Italian Renaissance . Cambridge 1992
  • with Hugh Lloyd-Jones: Sophocles: second thoughts . Göttingen 1997 ( Hypomnemata , Volume 100). ISBN 3-525-25200-5
  • Pietro Bembo / Oratio pro litteris graecis . Messina 2003. ISBN 8887541124
  • Encyclopedia of ancient Greece . New York 2006. ISBN 0-415-97334-1
  • Aristophanes fabulae . Two volumes, Oxford 2007 ( Oxford Classical Texts )
  • Aristophanea: Studies on the Text of Aristophanes . Oxford 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-928299-9

literature

  • The International Who's Who . 2004, p. 1820

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personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Nigel Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Nigel G .; Wilson, Nigel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London