Classical Philology

🇺🇸Revilo P. Oliver

Education

1908–1994

"Revilo Oliver site maintained by Kevin Alfred Strom"

Theodor Mommsen

Science

1817–1903

"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."

🇨🇭John Pentland Mahaffy

Literature

1839–1919

"With Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world."

William Hepworth Thompson

Education

1810–1886

"We are none of us infallible—not even the youngest of us."

Richard Porson

Literature

1759–1808

"To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible."

"Jasper Griffin, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University"