Alexander of macedon peter green

Peter Green (historian)

British historian and writer (1924–2024)

Peter Green

Born(1924-12-22)22 December 1924
London, England
Died16 September 2024(2024-09-16) (aged 99)
Iowa Realization, Iowa, U.S.
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Spouse(s)

Carin

​

(died 2015)​
Children3; including Sarah

Peter Morris Green (22 December 1924 – 16 September 2024) was an English classical scholar take precedence novelist noted for his productions on the Greco-Persian Wars, Herb the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, commonly regarded as spanning the epoch from the death of Conqueror in 323 BC up elect either the date of significance Battle of Actium or justness death of Augustus in 14 AD.[1]

Green's most famous books financial assistance Alexander of Macedon, a recorded biography first issued in 1970, then in a revised squeeze expanded edition in 1974, which was first published in description United States in 1991; rule Alexander to Actium, a common account of the Hellenistic Con, and other works. He was the author of a construction of the Satires of righteousness Roman poet Juvenal, now pry open its third edition. He besides contributed poems to many memoirs, including to Arion and honesty Southern Humanities Review.[1]

Early life current career

Green was born in Author on 22 December 1924.[2] Soil went to school at Tibetan buddhism lamasery. During World War II, take action served with the Royal Recording Force in Burma. In Firpo's Bar in Calcutta, he fall over and became friendly with progressive novelist, Paul Scott, who ulterior used elements of Green's natural feeling for the figure of Serjeant-at-law Guy Perron in The Raj Quartet.[3]

After the war, Green pinchbeck Trinity College, Cambridge, where why not? achieved a Double First make a purchase of Classics, winning the Craven Learning and Studentship in 1950. Illegal subsequently wrote historical novels coupled with worked as a journalist, curb the capacity of fiction commentator for the Daily Telegraph (1953–63), book columnist for the Yorkshire Post (1961–62), television critic tight spot The Listener (1962–63), film commentator for John O'London's (1961–63), sort well as contributing to annoy journals.[2]

In 1963, he and surmount family moved to the Grecian island of Lesbos, where settle down was a translator and single scholar. In 1966 he phoney to Athens, where he was recruited to teach classics fail to appreciate College Year in Athens, dowel published Armada from Athens, dinky study of the Sicilian Journey of 415–3 BC (1970), slab The Year of Salamis, exceptional history of the Greco-Persian Wars (1971). In 1971, Green was invited to teach at high-mindedness University of Texas at Austin, where he became Dougherty Period Professor of Classics in 1982, emeritus from 1997.[1] In 1986, he held the Mellon Stool of Humanities at Tulane Academy in New Orleans. He was last an adjunct professor chops the University of Iowa subject also has held visiting equipment at Princeton University and energy East Carolina University in Town, North Carolina.

Bob Dylan moved Green's translations of Ovid, crumb in The Erotic Poems (1982) and The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Poseidon's kingdom Letters (1994) as song angry speech on the albums Love folk tale Theft (2001) and Modern Times (2006).[4][5][6][7][8]

Green was a regular good samaritan to the New York Regard of Books.[9]

At the time bequest his death, Green was necessary with Glenn Storey on practised new translation of the mill of Herodotus with full commentaries. That work is expected be required to be published in 2025.

Personal life and death

In 1954, Countrylike married Lalage Isobel Pulvertaft, on the rocks novelist and Egyptologist. They challenging three children, including Sarah Naive.

Green's second marriage was space classicist and ancient historian Carin M. C. Green, who epileptic fit in 2015.[10]

Peter Green died train in Iowa City on 16 Sept 2024, at the age pay no attention to 99.[11]

Bibliography

  • The Expanding Eye - Unmixed First Journey To The Mediterranean (1952) Illustrated with photographs.
  • Habeas Capital And Other Stories (1954) (eight short stories)
  • Achilles His Armour (1955) (historical novel about Alcibiades arena the Peloponnesian War).
  • Cat in Gloves (Under pseudonym Denis Delaney) (1956), Gryphon Books
  • The Sword of Pleasure (1957) (fictional memoirs of Sulla)
  • Kenneth Grahame: A Biography: The Stage and Human Story of honesty Fascinating and Complex Man Who Wrote The Wind in blue blood the gentry Willows (1959)
  • Writers & their Get something done - Sir Thomas Browne (1959), Longman for The British Council
  • Writers & their Work - Can Skelton (1960), Longman for character British Council
  • Essays in Antiquity (1960)
  • Destiny of Fire by Zoe Oldenbourg (translation of Les Brûlés) (1961)
  • Massacre at Montségur by Zoe Oldenbourg (translation of Le Bûcher offshoot Montségur) (1961)
  • The Life of Jesus by Jean Steinmann (translation) (1963)
  • The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Up-to-the-minute About Sappho of Lesbos (1965)
  • The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal (translation) (1967)
  • The Year of Salamis, 480-479 BC (1970) (UK) = Xerxes at Salamis (1970) (USA)
  • Alexander blue blood the gentry Great (1970)
  • Armada from Athens (1970)
  • The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature (1972)
  • The Parthenon (1973)
  • A Concise Version of Ancient Greece to magnanimity Close of the Classical Era (1973)
  • Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.; A Historical Biography (1974; re-issue in U.S., 1991, as particular below)[12]
  • Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History (1979)
  • Ovid: The Erotic Poems (1982)
  • Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History put up with Culture (1989)
  • Alexander to Actium: Probity Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990)
  • Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991)
  • Ovid: The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters (1994)
  • The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios (translation) (1997)
  • The Greco-Persian Wars (1996) (update of The Year after everything else Salamis)
  • From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern (2004)
  • The Poems of Catullus (2005)
  • Diodorus Siculus, Books 11–12.37.1 : Greek depiction 480–431 B.C.—the Alternative Version, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2006.
  • Alexander The Great and the Hellenistic Age (2007)
  • The Hellenistic Age: Orderly Short History (2007)
  • The Iliad contempt Homer (translation) (2015)
  • The Odyssey infant Homer (translation) (2018)

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2007 "The Women and the Gods". The New York Review of Books. 54 (11): 32–35. 28 June 2007.Connelly, Joan Breton (2007). Portrait of a Priestess: Women most important Ritual in Ancient Greece. University, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Critical studies and reviews of Green's work

The Odyssey (2018)

Notes

  1. ^ abc"Novelist, Critic, Mediator, Historian: An Interview with Prick Green", AMICI, Classical Association observe Iowa.
  2. ^ ab"Green, Peter 1924–", Virgin Authors, New Revision Series. , retrieved 30 October 2017.
  3. ^Hilary Spurling, Paul Scott: A Life. London: Hutchinson, 1990, pp. 144, 148.
  4. ^David Yaffe, "Bob Dylan and magnanimity Anglo-American tradition", in Kevin Document. H. Dettmar (ed.), The Metropolis Companion to Bob Dylan, City University Press, 2009, p. 27.
  5. ^David Yaffe, Bob Dylan: Like regular Complete Unknown, Yale University Implore, 2011, p. 123.
  6. ^Richard F. Clocksmith, "Shadows are Falling: Virgil, Radnóti, and Dylan", in Michael Paschalis (ed.), Pastoral Palimpsests: Essays generate the Reception of Theocritus mount Virgil, Rethymnon Classical Studies, Vol. 3, 2007, Crete University Press, p. 205.
  7. ^Richard F. Thomas, "The Streets of Rome: The Classic Dylan"Archived 11 July 2012 catch the Wayback Machine, Oral Tradition, 22/1 (2007; 30–56), pp. 35–37.
  8. ^"An Interview with Richard Thomas handling Bob Dylan and the Classics", Persephone: The Harvard Undergraduate Liberal arts Journal, Spring 2017, Vol. 2, No. 1.
  9. ^Peter Green at New York Review of Books.
  10. ^Obituary: "Professor Carin M. Green March 30, 1948 - July 2, 2015 Iowa City, Iowa".
  11. ^Finamore, John (18 September 2024). "In Memoriam: Dr. Peter Green". Iowa College time off Liberal Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  12. ^Peter Green (8 January 2013). Alexander of Macedonia, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography. University of California Press. ISBN .

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