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Arthur Sanders Way

1847 – 1930

English scholar

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Lived 1847 – 1930 (aged 83). Arthur Sanders Way was a translator, classical scholar, classical philologist and teacher.

Arthur Sanders Way (13 February 1847 – 25 September 1930), was a classical scholar, translator and headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia. Career Arthur Way was born at Dorking, England. to the Rev. William Way and his wife Matilda, née Francis.

His translations in Miller's Australian Literature includes the Odyssey; the Iliad; works of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles; the Epodes of Horace; Vergil's Georgics; the Nibelungenlied; the Chanson de Roland; works of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus; the Pauline epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews; works of Aristophanes, Hesiod, Lucretius, and others. He also wrote Homer (1913), Greek through English (1926), and Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens (1929).

Way had been president of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society and a councillor of the Royal Society of Victoria. Way died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 25 September 1930.

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Kingswood School
Also known as
Arthur Way, Arthur S. Way

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Who was Arthur Sanders Way?

English scholar (1847-1930)

When was Arthur Sanders Way born?

Arthur Sanders Way was born on 13 February 1847 in Dorking.

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Arthur Sanders Way died on 25 September 1930.

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Arthur Sanders Way was a translator, classical scholar, classical philologist and teacher.

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· Wikipedia: Arthur Sanders Way

· Wikidata: Q4800630

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