Bernard Knox (1914–2010)
Autor von The Norton Book of Classical Literature
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Bernard Knox was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire on November 24, 1914. After studying classics at St. John's College, Cambridge, he fought with the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, he married Betty Baur and began teaching Latin at a private school in Greenwich, Connecticut. mehr anzeigen During World War II, he served in the United States Army where he parachuted into France to work with the resistance and went on to join the partisans in Italy. He received a Bronze Star and the Croix de Guerre for his service. He received a doctorate from Yale University in 1948. He also taught at Yale University, becoming a full professor in 1959, and became the founding director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, a position he held until 1985. He was an authority on the works of Sophocles and his first book was Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time (1957). He also edited the anthology The Norton Book of Classical Literature (1993). His essay appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. They were also collected in numerous books including The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (1964), Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater (1980), and The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics (1993). He received numerous honorary degrees and distinctions during his lifetime including the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism in 1977; the Charles Frankel Prize of the National Endowment of the Humanities in 1990; and the Jefferson Medal of the Philosophical Society of America in 2004. He died of a heart attack on July 22, 2010 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: I - Greek Literature (1985) — Herausgeber — 60 Exemplare
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama (1989) — Herausgeber — 42 Exemplare
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 1, Early Greek Poetry (1989) — Herausgeber — 35 Exemplare
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4: The Hellenistic Period and the… (1989) — Herausgeber — 21 Exemplare
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory (1989) — Herausgeber; Herausgeber — 17 Exemplare
The Ajax of Sophocles 1 Exemplar
The Aeneid: Introduction Booklet 1 Exemplar
Classical Literature 1 Exemplar
Morton's Book of Classical Literature 1 Exemplar
Sophocle I: Sophocles and the Polis 1 Exemplar
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Der schwarze Jäger. Denkformen und Gesellschaftsformen der griechischen Antike (1981) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 85 Exemplare
Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods, but Verify (2005) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 24 Exemplare
New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (Studies in the History of Art) (1991) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Yale classical studies. Volume 13 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
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- Knox, Bernard
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker
- Geburtstag
- 1914-11-24
- Todestag
- 2010-07-22
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- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
UK (birth) - Geburtsort
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Todesursache
- heart failure
- Wohnorte
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK (birth)
London, England, UK
Washington, D.C., USA
Bethesda, Maryland, USA - Ausbildung
- Battersea Grammar School, London, UK
St John's College, Cambridge University (BA|1936)
Yale University (MA|Ph.D|1948) - Berufe
- professor
classicist
translator - Beziehungen
- VanOrden, Bianca (wife)
Knox, MacGregor (son) - Organisationen
- Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies
Yale University
United States Army (WWII)
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- Charles Frankel Prize (1990)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1977)
American Philosophical Society (1985)
Thomas Jefferson Medal (2004)
Jefferson Lecture (1992)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1990) (Zeige alle 10)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1967)
George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism (1977)
Croix de Guerre (1945)
Bronze Star (2x, 1945) - Kurzbiographie
- Knox fought with the XI th. International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War from 1937 to 1938. He was badly wounded. In World War II he was, as a soldier of the US Army, involved in covert US / British / French operations in France and Northern Italy.
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Bernard Knox dead at 95 in Ancient History (August 2010)
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Way too complicated for me, I need more of a beginner's guide!
Much as I love Knox, this is actually inessential. A little defensive in parts and doesn't say anything you didn't already know. Why should we read the classics? Because they have awesome fight scenes, shut up.
Verzameling lezingen. Boeiend en interessant, maar het lost de verwachtingen van de titel zeker niet in.
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The real jewel in this book is the final essay, "The Continuity of Greek Culture." Insightful and delightful - the pages melted by and it was over before I was ready.… (mehr)