David Grene

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David Grene (13 April 1913 - 10 September 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.

A memoir by Grene titled Of Farming and Classics was published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. Grene, a friend and colleague of prolific author Saul Bellow, is the father of Gregory Grene, lead singer and accordionist for Irish jig-punk band The Prodigals. He is also the father of Andrew, Ruth and Nicholas Grene. Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where his father took his first degree.

[edit] Translations

  • Three Greek tragedies, Aeschylus's Prometheus bound, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, Euripides's Hippolytus, The University of Chicago Press, 1942.
  • The History, by Herodotus, University of Chicago Press, 1987
  • The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, translated by David Grene and Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, with introductions by David Grene, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, and Nicholas Rudall, The University of Chicago Press, 1989.

[edit] Edited Works

  • Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, 3 volumes, works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, University of Chicago Press, 1960.
  • The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, 7 volumes, New York, Modern Library, 1960.
  • Antigone, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. With supplementary materials prepared by Walter James Miller, New York, Washington Square Press, 1970.
  • The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, the complete Hobbes translation, with notes and a new introduction by David Grene, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

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