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Bernard Knox
Born
(1914-11-24)24 November 1914 Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Died
22 July 2010(2010-07-22) (aged 95) Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Occupation
Professor, author
Language
English
Education
St John's College, Cambridge (BA) Harvard University (MA) Yale University (PhD)
Genre
Classics
Notable works
The Norton Book of Classical Literature (1993); The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics (1993); Introductions to The Iliad (1991), The Odyssey (1997), and The Aeneid (2006)
Notable awards
Jefferson Lecture (1992)
Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox (November 24, 1914 – July 22, 2010[1]) was an English classicist, author, and critic who became an American citizen. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies.[2][3] In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.[4]
^Wolfgang Saxon, "Bernard Knox, 95, Classics Scholar, Dies", The New York Times, August 16, 2010.
^History of the Center for Hellenic Studies at CHS website (retrieved May 26, 2009).
^Bernard Knox author listing at New York Review of Books website (retrieved May 25, 2009).
^Nadine Drozan, "Chronicle", The New York Times, March 9, 1992.
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