A. S. F. Gow

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Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1886-1979) was a classical scholar at Cambridge University specializing in poetry.

He was primarily associated with Trinity College, being a fellow of it from 1911 on, interrupted only by a period as Assistant Master of Eton College, 1914-1925. He was the Brereton Reader in Classics from 1947 to 1951.

Notable work includes editions of Theocritus, Machon, and the Greek Anthology. He was closely associated with A. E. Housman, and was a friend of A. F. Scholfield, a classical scholar who was Librarian of Cambridge University Library.

[edit] Works

  • A. E. Housman A Sketch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936)
  • ed., Theocritus (Cambridge, 1952)
  • ed., Bucolici Graeci (Oxford Classical Texts) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952) ISBN 0-19-814517-9
  • ed. (with A. F. Scholfield), Nicander: the poems and poetical fragments (Cambridge, 1953)
  • The Greek Anthology: Sources and Ascriptions (London, 1958)
  • ed. (with Denys Page), The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams (Cambridge, 1965), 2 vols.
  • Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1965)
  • Letters from Cambridge