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Mythical beasts
Paperback. With sculptures by Marcelle Quinton. Sunned covers with several scores. Lower leading corners of covers and pages are bumped. Upper leading corners and spine ends are a little worn. Penned dedication on half-title page. Pages are slightly sunned. Contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. AF
70 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1980
About the author
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
49 books4 followersProfessor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones was a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford) at Oxford University.
He pursued undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Christ Church, Oxford. He supervised many distinguished PhD students, not least Martin Litchfield West. In his inaugural address as Regius Professor in 1961 he called for a reduction in the emphasis laid on composition taught to undergraduates and suggested that Honour Moderations might have to be reformed to encompass studies taken from ancient philosophy and history as well as the traditional literature and language.
He contributed editions of Menander’s Dyscolus (1960) and Sophocles (1990, together with Nigel Wilson) to the Oxford Classical Texts, and editions and translations of the Aeschylean fragments (1960) and Sophocles (2000) to the Loeb Classical Library.
He was married to Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
He pursued undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Christ Church, Oxford. He supervised many distinguished PhD students, not least Martin Litchfield West. In his inaugural address as Regius Professor in 1961 he called for a reduction in the emphasis laid on composition taught to undergraduates and suggested that Honour Moderations might have to be reformed to encompass studies taken from ancient philosophy and history as well as the traditional literature and language.
He contributed editions of Menander’s Dyscolus (1960) and Sophocles (1990, together with Nigel Wilson) to the Oxford Classical Texts, and editions and translations of the Aeschylean fragments (1960) and Sophocles (2000) to the Loeb Classical Library.
He was married to Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
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May 26, 2009
The last in the series begiun with Female of the Species and continued with Myths of the Zodiac, each of which feature images of sculptures by Marcelle Quinton, this is a useful compendium of various amalgamate creatures such as the Minotaur and Siren. Its a good book but I was so disappointed at the absense of a chapter of the Chimeara and also annoyed at the snubbing of the hippocamp that I left it 3 stars. The cyclops is the other ommission but that one is well documented elsewhere. There are ten chapters, one per beast, there needs to be at least 20 to cover all the wonderful obscurities such as Gello, Mormo and the infamous Baubo.
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