Shackleton bailey valerius maximus biography

British classical learner (1917–2005)

David Roy Shackleton BaileyFBA (10 December 1917 – 28 November 2005) was a British scholar of Established literature (particularly in the fountain pen of textual criticism) who fagged out his academic life teaching have emotional impact the University of Cambridge, distinction University of Michigan, and Philanthropist.

He is best known comply with his work on Horace (editing his complete works for leadership Teubner series), and Cicero, vastly his commentaries and translations remaining Cicero's letters.^[1]

Academic career

Bailey was excellence youngest of four children congenital to John Henry Shackleton Lexicologist and Rosmund Maud (née Giles).^[2] After being educated at Royalty Royal Grammar School, where consummate mathematician father was headmaster, Shackleton Bailey read first Classics put forward then Oriental Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, earlier spending the years of influence Second World War at Bletchley Park, the home of loftiness British code-breaking efforts.

He joint to Caius as a twin in 1944, and in 1948 obtained a lectureship in Himalayish at Cambridge University. In 1955 he migrated to Jesus Institute, Cambridge, where, as Director hold Studies in Classics, he began publishing the long series comatose books and articles on Person authors that would occupy prestige rest of his life.

Put your feet up spent four more years entice Caius from 1964 to 1968, this time serving as Bank clerk and Senior Bursar. This span, his move was reputedly considering Sir Denys Page, Master carryon Jesus, refused to allow Hut (as he was commonly known) to have a cat-flap installed in his ancient oak threshold. In 1968 he crossed leadership Atlantic, specifically to the Academia of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and in 1976 he simulated to Harvard University (whose Humanities department he had visited slot in 1963), first as Professor be unable to find Greek and Latin, then (from 1982) as Pope Professor treat the Latin Language and Data.

He twice served as say publicly editor of Harvard Studies bask in Classical Philology (1980-1981 and 1983–1985).

In 1988 he retired reject Harvard and became an assistant professor at the University make merry Michigan.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967 he wedded Hilary Ann Bardwell (who was later married to Alastair Boyd), the former wife of depiction British author Kingsley Amis; that marriage was dissolved in 1975. In 1994 he married Kristine Zvirbulis.

He was extremely loving of cats (the first manual of his seven-volume Cambridge Doctrine Press edition of the Hand of Cicero is dedicated motivate Donum, a feline present running away Frances Lloyd-Jones) and of exemplary music.^{[citation needed]}

In 1958 he condign the double honour of unembellished fellowship of the British Institute (whose Kenyon Medal he would be awarded in 1985)^[3] attend to a Litt.D.

degree from Cambridge; he also held an voluntary Litt.D. from Dublin University, awarded in 1984. He was first-class a Fellow of the Land Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975^[4] and a colleague of the American Philosophical The upper crust in 1977.^[5] He was span member of the American Philological Association, which awarded him excellence Goodwin Award for Merit block 1978; a member of significance American Academy of Arts deliver Letters; an honorary member additional the Society for the Sanction of Roman Studies; and archetypal honorary fellow of Gonville dispatch Caius College, Cambridge.^{[citation needed]}

The main part of his scholarly work meticulous on Latin philology and Weighty history and prosopography.

In emptiness he prepared many editions yearn the Loeb Classical Library accessible by Harvard University Press, plus those of Martial, Valerius Maximus, Statius, and the correspondence surrounding Cicero.^{[citation needed]}

He died of Alzheimers disease in Ann Arbor, Michigan.^[6]

Publications (selected)

• The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātṛceṭa.

  Indic text, Tibetan translation & critique and Chinese translation [by I-Ching]. Edited by D.R. Shackleton Vocalist. With an introduction, English rendering and notes. (1951)^[7]

• Propertiana (Cambridge, 1958).
• co-ed. W.S. Watt. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae.

  4 v. (Oxford, Fabricate, 1958-1982: v. : Ep. highly regarded Atticum, libri ix-xvi, rec. -B., 1961)

• ed. Cicero: Letters to Atticus 7 v. (Cambridge, 1965–70).
• ed. Cicero: Epistulae ad familiares 2 overwhelmingly. (Cambridge, 1977).
• trans. Cicero’s letters bring out his friends (Atlanta, 1978).
• Cicero’s Calligraphy to Atticus 2 v.

  (Penguin, 1978).

• Profile of Horace (Harvard, 1982).
• ed. Anthologia Latina I fasc. 1: Libri Salmasiani aliorumque carmina (Stuttgart, 1982).
• ed. Q. Horati Flacci Opera (Stuttgart, 1985).
• ed. and trans. Cicero: Philippics (Chapel Hill, 1986).
• ed. M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Atticum 2 v.(Stuttgart, 1987).
• ed.

  M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Familiares (Stuttgart, 1988).

• ed. M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Q. Fratrem, ad Lot. Brutum, Commentariolum petitionis, fragmenta epistularum (Stuttgart, 1988).
• ed. M. Fabii Quintiliani Declamationes minores (Stuttgart, 1989).
• Onomasticon pileup Cicero’s speeches (Stuttgart, 1988, 1991²).
• trans.

  Cicero. Back from Exile: Sise Speeches upon his Return (Atlanta, 1991).

• ed. M. Annaei Lucani Division bello civili libri X (Stuttgart, 1988; 1997²).
• ed. M. Valerii Martialis epigrammata (1990).
• Homoeoteleuton in Latin dactylic verse (Stuttgart, 1994).
• Onomasticon to Cicero’s letters (Stuttgart, 1995).
• Onomasticon to Cicero’s treatises (Stuttgart, 1996).
• Selected classical papers (Ann Arbor, 1997).
• ed.

  and trans. Valerius Maximus: Memorable doings tolerate sayings 2 v. (Loeb Classic Library #s 492, 493, Altruist UP, 2000).

• ed. and trans. Cicero: Letters to friends 3 entirely. (Loeb Classical Library #s 205, 216, 230, Harvard UP, 2001).
• ed. and trans. Statius: Silvae (Loeb Classical Library #206, Harvard Tentative, 2003; corrected ed.

  2015).

• ed. tell trans. Statius: Thebaid Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library #207, Philanthropist UP, 2003).
• ed. and trans. Statius: Thebaid Books 8-12; Achilleid (Loeb Classical Library #498, Harvard Come in, 2003).
• ed. and trans. Quintilian: Prestige Lesser Declamations 2 v. (Loeb Classical Library #s 500, 501, Harvard UP, 2006).

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