Author Listings (Ancient, Classical & Medieval)
Records 1 - 20 of 1852
| Norman Yoffee, CV-1 page
(for full cv, see sitemaker.umich.edu/nyoffee)
Education: BA, Northwestern University (1966), PhD, Yale University (1973)
(also: University of Chicago (summer 1967), University of Munich (1969-70)
Honors: D Lit (honoris causa), La Trobe University (Melbourne), 1998
Major Grants: A....[more] |
| W. S. Merwin, 1927 - Poet W. S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. He has authored over fifteen books of poetry and some of those titles include "The River Sound" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; "The Vixen" (1996), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; "T....[more] |
| An ancient Greek playwright, Aeschylus is often called the father of tragedy. Among his revolutionary ideas, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for more interesting plots. Aeschylus was born around 525 B.C. to a wealthy family in a small town north of Athens. According to him, he started writing tra....[more] |
| Apuleius (c. 125 – c. 180) was a Latin novelist, writer, and public speaker. Apuleius is best known for his novel, Metaporphoses. Because his first name was not recorded, Apuleius is sometimes referred to as Lucius Apuleius after the main character in the Metaporphoses.
Apuleius was born in present-day Algeria. I....[more] |
| Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet best known for his epic poem, Orlando Furioso (1516). Orlando Furioso is translated as “The Frenzy of Orlando” or “Mad Orlando.” It is a romantic epic poem that continues the earlier, incomplete romantic poem Orlando Innamorato (English translatio....[more] |
| Aristophanes (446-386 B.C.) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. He wrote at least forty plays during his lifetime, eleven of which survive today. Because these eleven plays are the primary surviving relics of the genre known as Old Comedy, Aristophanes is considered the Master of Old Comedy. He is believed to ....[more] |
| Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic. He is best known for the lyric poems “Dover Beach” (1867), “The Scholar-Gipsy” (1853), the commemorative poem “Thyrsis” (1865), a series of essays called Culture and Anarchy, and Literature and Dogma.
Arnold was born at Laleham on ....[more] |
| Bede (673 – 735) also known as Venerable Bede or Saint Bede was a monk in England who also spent his time as an author and scholar. “The Ecclesiastical History of the English People” is Bede’s most popular work. Most of what is known about Bede comes from the last chapter of this book. The rest details the history of t....[more] |
| E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934)
Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more] |
| Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the sixth of the eleven children born to Hannah Apthorp and Charles Bulfinch. He attended the Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, graduating in 1814. He was an avid reader and amassed a large library over ....[more] |
| Samuel Butler, English writer, artist, and satirist, was born on December 4th, 1835 in Nottinghamshire, England. The eldest of four children, Butler had a rather hostile relationship with his parents. Though his education started at home, he referred to his parents as “stupid” and soon began to reject his strict Angl....[more] |
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