William James Niall Rudd (23 June 1927 – 5 October 2015) was an Irish-born British classical scholar.
Life and work
Rudd was born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
and studied Classics at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
. He then taught Latin at the Universities of
Hull and
Manchester
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.
From 1958 to 1968 he was Associate Professor of Latin at
University College, Toronto
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. In 1968 he returned to England and taught for five years as a professor of Latin at the
University of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning
, established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...
. In 1973 he moved to the
University of Bristol
, mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'')
, established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter
, type ...
to the chair of Latin, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. From 1976 to 1979 he was Director (Head of Department) of the Department of Classics and Archaeology.
After retirement Rudd returned to Liverpool and was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow there. Trinity College Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998 (DLitt). Rudd died of
Melanoma
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after a long illness (
Alzheimer's
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) on 5 October 2015 at St. John's Hospice on the
Wirral.
Rudd worked intensively with Latin literature, especially Roman poetry, and its reception in English literature of the modern age. He wrote books, monographs and articles about works of
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...
, and on the satires of
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
and
Juvenal
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (), known in English as Juvenal ( ), was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the ''Satires''. The details of Juvenal's life ...
whose work he presented in English translation. This work has been published in two collections (1994, 2005). In addition, he published, in 1994, an autobiographical record of his childhood and youth in Ireland.
Bibliography
* ''The Satires of Horace. A Study'' (1966) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
* ''The Satires of Horace and Persius. A verse translation with an introduction and notes'' (1973) London: Harmondsworth Press
* ''Essays on Classical Literature, Selected from Arion and introduced by Niall Rudd'' (1974) Cambridge: Heffer Press
* ''Lines of Enquiry – Studies in Latin Poetry'' (1976) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
* with Edward Courtney: ''Juvenal: Satires I, III, X'' (1977) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
* ''T. E. Page: Schoolmaster Extraordinary'' (1981) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
* ''The Satires of Horace'' (1982) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
* ''Themes in Roman Satire'' (1986) London: Duckworth Press
* ''Cicero: 'De Legibus I. (1987) Bristol: Bristol Classical Press
* ''Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones (‘Ars Poetica’)'' (1989) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
* ''Juvenal. The Satires'' (1991) Oxford: Oxford University Press
* ''The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer/Virgil, Shakespeare/Plautus, Pope/Horace, Tennyson/Lucretius, Pound/Propertius'' (1994) Toronto: University of Toronto Press
* ''Pale Green, Light Orange. A Portrait of Bourgeois Ireland 1930-1950'' (1994) Dublin: Lilliput Press
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* with JGF Powell: ''Marcus Tullius Cicero: 'The Republic' and 'The Laws (1998) Oxford: Oxford University Press
* with Robin G. M. Nisbet: ''A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III'' (2004) Oxford: Oxford University Press
* ''Horace, Odes and Epodes'' (2004) Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press ('']Loeb Classical Library
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References
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British classical scholars
Irish classical scholars
1927 births
2015 deaths