William Roger Paton

William Roger Paton (born February 9, 1857 in Old Machar near Aberdeen , † April 21, 1921 in Vathy on Samos ) was a Scottish classical philologist and epigraphist who worked in Greece.

Life

William Roger Paton was the son of John Paton and his wife Eliza Deborah born. Burnett. He attended Eton College and studied Classics at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford , where Oscar Wilde was one of his fellow students. After graduation, Paton went to Greece as a scholarship holder at the British School at Athens and stayed there all his life. In 1885 he married Irini Olympiti on Kalymnos , the daughter of the mayor, through whose inheritance he came to land in Myndos . Paton lived on various Greek islands, including Chios and Lesbos , to enable his sons to attend high school. Paton himself was engaged in archaeological, epigraphic and philological projects. He also made contact with scientists from abroad. The German Archaeological Institute elected him a corresponding member in 1893, the University of Halle awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy in 1900 and in 1908 Paton became a member of the Athenaeum Club in London .

Paton had a long correspondence with the German philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . He supported him in several research projects: for the Inscriptiones Graecae he examined the inscriptions of the Aegean islands of Lesbos and Tenedos , for the new Plutarch edition (together with Kurt Hubert , Wilhelm Nachstädt , Max Pohlenz , Wilhelm Sieveking and Hans Wegehaupt ) he examined several manuscripts and edited two volumes of the Moralia himself . His best known publications include his translations of the Greek anthology and the historian Polybios for the Loeb Classical Library .

Fonts (selection)

The Greek Anthology

• with EL Hicks: The Inscriptions of Cos . Oxford 1891. Reprinted in Hildesheim 1990
• Plutarchi Pythici dialogi tres. Recensuit Guilhelmus R. Paton . Berlin 1893
• with John Linton Myres : Karian sites and inscriptions . In: Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 16 (1896), pp. 188-271
• with John Linton Myres: On some Karian and Hellenic oil-presses. In: Journal of Hellenic Studies 18, 1898, pp. 209-217
• Inscriptiones Graecae insularum maris Aegaei. Fasciculus II: Inscriptiones Lesbi, Nesi, Tenedi . Berlin 1899 (= Inscriptiones Graecae XII 2)
• The Greek Anthology . Five volumes, London / New York 1916–1818 ( Loeb Classical Library )
• Polybius: The Histories . Six volumes, London / New York 1922–1927 ( Loeb Classical Library L128; L137; L138; L159; L160; L161)
• Plutarchus: Moralia. Vol. 1 . Recognition et emendaverunt WR Paton et I. Wegehaupt. Praefationem scripsit M. Pohlenz. Leipzig 1925
• Plutarchus: Moralia. Vol. 3 . Review et emendaverunt WR Paton, M. Pohlenz et W. Sieveking. Leipzig 1929. Reprint 2001

literature

• Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: Memories 1848–1914 . 2nd edition, Leipzig 1929, p. 227f.
• David Gill: William Roger Paton . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 43 (2005), pp. 68f.
• Robert Kirstein : How do you get a judgment on Homer? A letter from U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to WR Paton . In: In Pursuit of Science. Festschrift WM Calder III for the 75th birthday . Edited by Stephan Heilen , Robert Kirstein, RS Smith, S. Trzaskoma, M. Vorwerk, R. van der Wal. Hildesheim 2008, pp. 223-264

Web links

• Literature by William Roger Paton in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paton, William Roger (1857–1921), epigraphist and classical scholar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (David Gill, "Paton, William Roger (1857–1921)", first published 2004)