About Malcolm Davies
Born 1951. Malcolm Davies is a British hellenist, classical philologist, university teacher, translator and editor.
Malcolm Davies is a British classicist and textual critic of Ancient Greek literature, and is emeritus Research Fellow in Classics at St John's College, Oxford. He specialises in the Greek epic cycle, Greek lyric poetry and Greek tragedy, and has edited texts from various ancient Greek poets.
Selected published works
2021 - Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary (Oxford) 2019 - The Cypria (Harvard) 2015 - The Theban Epics (Harvard) 2014 - Stesichorus: The Poems (Cambridge, with Patrick Finglass) 1991 - Poetarum Melicorum Fragmenta, Volume I (Oxford) 1991 - Sophocles: Trachiniae (Oxford) 1989 - The Greek Epic Cycle (Bloomsbury) 1988 - Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (Göttingen)
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British classicist
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Malcolm Davies was born in 1951.
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Malcolm Davies is a hellenist, classical philologist, university teacher, translator and editor.
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· DBpedia: Malcolm Davies (classicist)
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