Robert John Getty (February 5, 1908, in Northern Ireland – October 24, 1963) was a Classicist and expert on the ancient author

Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan (), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba (modern-day Córdoba), in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial ...

. Getty earned an A.B. from

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, in 1928 and a master's degree from

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in 1930, where he was lecturer from 1937–1947. He became professor of Latin at the University of Toronto in 1947. In 1958 he became the first

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Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a fellow of the

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and president of the American Philological Association in 1959.

Scholarship

* 1979.
M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili liber I
'' New York: Arno Press.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Getty, Robert 1908 births 1963 deaths Classical scholars of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill American classical scholars Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge