Denys Page

Sir Denys Lionel Page (born 11 May 1908 in Reading, died 6 July 1978 in Tarset)^[1] was a British classical scholar at Cambridge University.

He was elected the 34th Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University in 1950, a position he held until 1974, and held a professorial fellowship at Trinity College.^[2] He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1959 to 1973.^[3]

Elected fellow of the British Academy in 1952,^[2]^[3] he received its Kenyon medal in 1969 and served as the Academy's president from 1971 to 1974.^[2]^[3]

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Actors' interpolations in Greek tragedy, studied with special reference to Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis, Oxford 1934
A new chapter in the history of Greek tragedy, Cambridge 1951
The Partheneion, Oxford 1951
Corinna, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London 1953
Poetarum Lesbiorum fragmenta (edited with Edgar Lobel), Oxford 1955
Sappho and Alcaeus; introduction to the study of ancient Lesbian poetry, Oxford 1955
The Homeric Odyssey, Oxford 1955
Aeschylus, Agamemnon (edited with John Dewar Denniston) Oxford 1957
History and the Homeric Iliad, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1959
Poetae melici Graeci; Alcmanis, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Simonidis, Corinnae, poetarum minorum reliquias, carmina popularia et convivialia quaeque adespota feruntur, Oxford 1962
Lyrica Graeca selecta (edited), 1968
The Santorini volcano and the desolation of Minoan Crete, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London 1970
Aeschyli septem quae supersunt tragoedias (edited) Oxford 1972
Supplementum lyricis Graecis : poetarum lyricorum Graecorum fragmenta quae recens innotuerunt (edited), Oxford 1974
The epigrams of Rufinus]] (edited) Cambridge 1978
Further Greek epigrams : epigrams before AD 50 from the Greek anthology and other sources, not included in Hellenistic epigrams or The garland of Philip (edited), Cambridge 1981