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David Grene (13 April 1913 - 10 September 2002) was a professor of classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on Social Thought
Committee on Social Thought

The Committee on Social Thought, one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago, was started in 1941 by historian John U. Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins....
 and is best known for his translations of ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek literature

Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language until the 4th century AD....
.

Grene was born in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, where he earned his M.A.
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 in 1936 at Trinity College
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
. His translations include Herodotus
Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
' Histories, Aeschylus
Aeschylus

Aeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides....
' Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek theatre. In classical antiquity, this drama was attributed to Aeschylus, but is now considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, perhaps one as late as ca....
 and Seven Against Thebes
Seven Against Thebes

The Seven against Thebes is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes, Greece headed by Eteocles and his supporters....
, Sophocles
Sophocles

Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
' Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King is an Classical Athens tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 B.C.E. It was the second of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone ....
, Electra
Electra (Sophocles)

Electra or Elektra is a Ancient Greece tragedy Play by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career....
, and Philoctetes
Philoctetes (Sophocles)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles . It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War ....
, and Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
' Hippolytus
Hippolytus (play)

Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek drama tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus , son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy....
.

A memoir by Grene titled Of Farming and Classics was published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.






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David Grene (13 April 1913 - 10 September 2002) was a professor of classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
 at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
 from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on Social Thought
Committee on Social Thought

The Committee on Social Thought, one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago, was started in 1941 by historian John U. Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins....
 and is best known for his translations of ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek literature

Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek language until the 4th century AD....
.

Grene was born in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, where he earned his M.A.
Master's degree

A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
 in 1936 at Trinity College
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
. His translations include Herodotus
Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
' Histories, Aeschylus
Aeschylus

Aeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides....
' Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek theatre. In classical antiquity, this drama was attributed to Aeschylus, but is now considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, perhaps one as late as ca....
 and Seven Against Thebes
Seven Against Thebes

The Seven against Thebes is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes, Greece headed by Eteocles and his supporters....
, Sophocles
Sophocles

Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
' Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King

Oedipus the King is an Classical Athens tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 B.C.E. It was the second of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone ....
, Electra
Electra (Sophocles)

Electra or Elektra is a Ancient Greece tragedy Play by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career....
, and Philoctetes
Philoctetes (Sophocles)

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles . It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War ....
, and Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
' Hippolytus
Hippolytus (play)

Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek drama tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus , son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy....
.

A memoir by Grene titled Of Farming and Classics was published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. Grene, a friend and colleague of prolific author Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow , was an acclaimed Canada-United States writer born in Canada of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988....
, is the father of Gregory Grene, lead singer and accordionist for Irish jig-punk band The Prodigals. He is also the father of Andrew, Ruth and Nicholas Grene. Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where his father took his first degree.

Translations

  • Three Greek tragedies, Aeschylus
    Aeschylus

    Aeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides....
    's Prometheus bound, Sophocles
    Sophocles

    Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
    's Oedipus Rex, Euripides
    Euripides

    Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
    's Hippolytus
    Hippolytus (play)

    Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek drama tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus , son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy....
    , The University of Chicago Press, 1942.
  • The History, by Herodotus
    Herodotus

    Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
    , University of Chicago Press, 1987
  • The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, translated by David Grene and Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, with introductions by David Grene, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, and Nicholas Rudall
    Nicholas Rudall

    D. Nicholas Rudall is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Committees on General Studies in the Humanities and Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1966....
    , The University of Chicago Press, 1989.


Edited Works

  • Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore
    Richmond Lattimore

    Richmond Alexander Lattimore was an United States poet and translator known for his translations of the Greece classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are generally considered as among the best English translations available....
    , 3 volumes, works of Aeschylus
    Aeschylus

    Aeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides....
    , Sophocles
    Sophocles

    Sophocles was the second of the three classical Greece tragedy whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides....
    , and Euripides
    Euripides

    Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
    , University of Chicago Press, 1960.
  • The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore
    Richmond Lattimore

    Richmond Alexander Lattimore was an United States poet and translator known for his translations of the Greece classics, especially his versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are generally considered as among the best English translations available....
    , 7 volumes, New York, Modern Library, 1960.
  • Antigone, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. With supplementary materials prepared by Walter James Miller, New York, Washington Square Press, 1970.
  • The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides
    Thucydides

    Thucydides was a Greeks history and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C....
    , the complete Hobbes translation, with notes and a new introduction by David Grene, University of Chicago Press, 1989.


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