William Arrowsmith

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William Ayers Arrowsmith (1924–1992) was an American classicist. This man of letters was educated at Princeton and Oxford, and was awarded ten honorary degrees^[1]. Arrowsmith translated Petronius’s Satyricon (1959) and Aristophanes’ plays The Birds (1961) and The Clouds (1962), as well as Euripides’ Alcestis, Cyclops, Heracles, Orestes, Hecuba, and The Bacchae, among other works, both classical and contemporary. He is also known for his writings on Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni. He was professor at the University of Texas, Boston University, Princeton University, MIT, Yale, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Emory University.