Leonard Greenwood (classicist)

Leonard Hugh Graham Greenwood (30 August 1880 – 16 November 1965) was a New Zealand classical scholar at Cambridge University.

Biography

Greenwood was born at Gisborne, New Zealand, and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in classics. He then lectured at Leeds University 1903–1907 and was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1906–1909. In 1909 he was elected to a fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and taught classics there for 40 years. He died in Cambridge.[1] He was elected a member of the Cambridge Apostles in 1903.[2] Greenwood's father, Graham Lord Greenwood, was the son of the artist Sarah Greenwood.[3][4]

Publications
  • translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, book six, Cambridge University Press, 1909
  • translation of Cicero's The Verrine Orations, Heinemann, 1935
  • Greek tragedy compared with modern drama, Victoria University College, 1943
  • Aspects of Euripidean Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, 1953

References
  1. "Mr L. H. G. Greenwood – Classical Studies At Cambridge". The Times. London. 18 November 1965. p. 17.
  2. Hale, Keith, ed. (1998). Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey. Yale University Press. p. 107. ISBN 0300070047.
  3. Press 20 November 1965 Page 24
  4. "Graham Lord Greenwood". 14 March 1834.


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