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William Ayers Arrowsmith (1924–1992) was an American classicist. This man of letters was educated at Princeton and Oxford, and was awarded ten honorary degrees. Arrowsmith translated Petronius
Petronius

Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman Empire courtier during the reign Nero. He is speculated to be the author of the Satyricon, a satire believed to have been written during the Neronian age....
’s Satyricon
Satyricon

Satyricon is a Latin language work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius....
 (1959) and Aristophanes
Aristophanes

Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comedy playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete....
’ plays The Birds (1961) and The Clouds (1962), as well as 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....
Alcestis, Cyclops, Heracles, Orestes, Hecuba, and The Bacchae, among other works, both classical and contemporary.






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William Ayers Arrowsmith (1924–1992) was an American classicist. This man of letters was educated at Princeton and Oxford, and was awarded ten honorary degrees. Arrowsmith translated Petronius
Petronius

Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman Empire courtier during the reign Nero. He is speculated to be the author of the Satyricon, a satire believed to have been written during the Neronian age....
’s Satyricon
Satyricon

Satyricon is a Latin language work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius....
 (1959) and Aristophanes
Aristophanes

Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comedy playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete....
’ plays The Birds (1961) and The Clouds (1962), as well as 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....
Alcestis, Cyclops, Heracles, Orestes, Hecuba, and The Bacchae, among other works, both classical and contemporary. He is also known for his writings on Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
. He was professor at the University of Texas, Boston University
Boston University

Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
, Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, MIT, Yale
YALE

RapidMiner is an environment for machine learning and data mining experiments. It allows experiments to be made up of a large number of arbitrarily nestable operators, described in XML files which can easily be created with RapidMiner's graphical user interface....
, Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropy creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine....
, NYU, Emory University
Emory University

Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta, Georgia in western unincorporated area DeKalb County, Georgia, Georgia , United States....
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