David Grene
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David Grene (1913-2002) was a professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on Social Thought and is best known for his translations of ancient Greek literature.
Grene was born in Dublin, where he earned his M.A. in 1936 at Trinity College. His translations include Herodotus' Histories, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Electra, and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus.
