John Swinnerton Phillimore

John Swinnerton Phillimore

John Swinnerton Phillimore (1873–1926) was a British classical scholar, translator, and poet. Born in Cornwall, Phillimore read Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Christ Church, Oxford, and was also President of the Oxford Union. After taking his degree, he remained at Christ Church as a Student (Fellow and Tutor) until 1899, when he was made Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow; in 1906 he became Professor of Humanity at the same university. Though he was invited to give the Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, he was unable to do so because of the First World War. Phillimore was a convert to Roman Catholicism.^[1]

Works

• Propertius (critical edition) (1901)
• Sophocles (translation) (1902)
• Things New and Old (1918)
• The Hundred Best Latin Hymns (1925)

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