biography
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Knox, Bernard (MacGregor Walker)
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| (1914– )
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| Classics scholar and writer, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, UK (1936 BA), and went to Spain to fight (and was wounded) with the International Brigade in the Civil War. He went to the USA (1939), and while serving with the US Army in Europe during World War 2 (1942–5) became an American citizen (1943), and was awarded two Bronze Stars and the French croix de guerre. He earned his PhD at Yale (1948) and taught classics there (1948–61). He then served as director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC (1961–85). Among various honours and awards, he was the 1963 Sather lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and received the 1978 George Jean Nathan Award for drama criticism. In addition to his articles, reviews, and translations, his books include The Heroic Temper, Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (1980), Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theatre (1980), and The Oldest Dead White European Males (1993). He wrote the script for and performed in four films for educational television on Sophocles' Oedipus the King (films used in classrooms throughout the US). He was the assistant editor and a contributor to Volume I of the Cambridge History of Classical Literature (1985) and was editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature (1993). |
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