Arnold Wycombe Gomme

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Arnold Wycombe Gomme (November 16, 1886–January 17, 1959), a British classical scholar, Lecturer in Greek and Greek History (1911–1945), Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow (1946–1957). Fellow of the British Academy (1947).

[edit] Publications

• The Population of Athes in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. (Glasgow University Publications; XXVIII). Oxford: Blackwell, 1933.
• Essays in Greek History and Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1937.
• Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1945.
• A Historical Commentary on Thucydides.
  • Vol. I: Introduction and Commentary on Book I. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1945.
  • Vols. II–III: The Ten Years' War (Books II–III and Books IV–V). Oxford: Clarendon Press; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1956.
  • Vol. IV: Books V.25–VII (with A. Andrewes and K.J. Dover). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
  • Vol. V: Book VIII (with A. Andrewes and K.J. Dover). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
• The Greek Attitude to Poetry and History (Sather Classical Lectures; XXVII). Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954.
• More Essays in Greek History and Literature, edited by David A. Campbell. Oxford: Blackwell, 1962.

[edit] Further reading

• Kitto, H.D.F. "Arnold Wycombe Gomme: [Obituary]", The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 79. (1959), pp. 1–2.