porphyry: (Fidus)
porphyry ([personal profile] porphyry) wrote2010-03-07 08:20 pm

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From the Classics List:

Members of the list will be saddened to learn that one of the world's greatest Hellenists, Sir Kenneth Dover (Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
1981-2005 and earlier Professor of Greek, 1955-76), died on the 7th March, just a few days before his 90th birthday. I do not yet have information about arrangements for the funeral.

Dover was the main inspiration for me to become a classicist.
filialucis: (Bread and Water)

[personal profile] filialucis 2010-03-08 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
You know what inspired me to go into Classics? Stumbling across the text of Gaudeamus igitur at the age of nine. :)