| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The beginning -- Origins -- Family -- Dublin (with animals) -- The theater -- Tipperary -- Schools -- Trinity College -- Vienna -- Return to Dublin : Ria Mooney -- America -- University of Chicago -- Farming -- Riding to hounds |
| Summary |
A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, the Complete Greek Tragedies. In this charming memoir, which he wrote before his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University o |
| Bibliography |
"Selected bibliography, works by David Grene": pages 167-169 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grene, David.
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Grene, David |
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Classicists -- United States -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Classicists
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006012465 |
| ISBN |
9780226308036 |
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0226308030 |
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1281957003 |
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9781281957009 |
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9786611957001 |
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6611957006 |
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