Joseph Anstice, was a classical scholar, and for four years professor of classical literature in King's College London

King's College London

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Biography

Anstice was born in 1808. He was educated at Westminster School

Westminster School

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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. He took his B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 on 3 February 1831, and M.A. on 2 April 1835. In 1831 he was appointed professor of classical literature in King's College, London, a post which he resigned in 1835 from ill-health. He died on 29 February 1836 at Torquay

Torquay

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He published:

1. Richard Cœur de Lion’ (prize poem), 1828.
2. Introductory Lecture at King's College, London, 1831.
3. Selections from the Choric Poetry of the Greek Dramatic Writers, translated into English Verse, 1832.
4. The Influence of the Roman Conquests upon Literature and the Arts in Rome (in Oxford English Prize Essays), 1836.
5. The Child's Christian Year, 1841, was partly his work.

External links

• Selections from the Choric Poetry of the Greek Deramatic Writers (1832) from the Internet Archive
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