Bernard Knox
British-American classical scholar (1914ā2010) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox (November 24, 1914 ā July 22, 2010[1]) was an English classicist, author, and critic who became an American citizen. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies.[2][3] In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.[4]
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Born | (1914-11-24)24 November 1914 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England |
Died | 22 July 2010(2010-07-22) (aged 95) Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
Occupation | Professor, author |
Language | English |
Education | St John's College, Cambridge (BA) Harvard University (MA) Yale University (PhD) |
Genre | Classics |
Notable works | The Norton Book of Classical Literature (1993); The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics (1993); Introductions to The Iliad (1991), The Odyssey (1997), and The Aeneid (2006) |
Notable awards | Jefferson Lecture (1992) |
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