Frederick Adam Wright

Frederick Adam Wright (16 February 1869 – 2 August 1946) was an English classical scholar known for his translations of Greek and Latin classics.

Early life Wright was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the second son of Adam John Wright and his wife Maria Jane. When he was baptized into the Church of England at the parish church of Gorleston, Suffolk, on 19 March, his father was described as a gentleman, of Southtown.

The young Wright was educated at Great Yarmouth Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Career Wright's early career was as a schoolmaster in Brighton and Mill Hill. From 1913 to 1935 he held the chair of Classics at Birkbeck College, which in 1920 became a college of the University of London.

Personal life On 31 July 1895, at St Peter's Church, Paddington, Wright married Ada Dee, spinster, of 39 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, a daughter of Alfred Dee, gentleman, of Tralee. Wright was described as a schoolmaster, of Mill Hill. They had three sons and two daughters.

At the time of the 1921 United Kingdom census, the Wrights were living at a house called Kalomba, in Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea, and both daughters, Maisie, 17, and Alda, 8, were living at home. The Lover's Handbook (1923), a translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria 'Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle' (1923) Collected Poems of Meleager of Gadara (1924) Select Epigrams of Martial (1925) Three Plays of Plautus (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1925) The Works of Liutprand of Cremona (1930) Select Letters of St. Jerome (Harvard University Press, 1933) A History of Later Latin Literature (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1931) A History of Later Greek Literature from the Death of Alexander in 323 BC to the Death of Justinian in 565 AD (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1932) Alexander the Great (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1934) Organizer of Victory (1937), a biography of Marcus Agrippa Three Roman Poets (1938), an essay on Plautus, Catullus and Ovid

In addition, Wright edited and partially rewrote Thomas Underdown's Elizabethan translation of Heliodorus's Aethiopica.