Robert Yelverton Tyrrell,
FBA (January 21, 1844 – September 19, 1914) was an
Irish
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** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
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classical scholar who was
Regius Professor of Greek at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
.
Biography
He was educated at Trinity College where he subsequently became a fellow in 1868 and professor of Latin in 1871. From 1869 he became the first editor of the literary magazine ''
Kottabos
Kottabos ( grc, κότταβος) was a game of skill played at Ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia (drinking parties), especially in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. It involved flinging wine-lees (sediment) at a target in the middle of the ro ...
''. He also founded the "more solemn academic journal" ''
Hermathena'' in 1873.
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digital copy
at Internet Archive
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). Jeffares incorrectly gives 1874 as the first year of ''Hermathena''.
From 1880 to 1898, he was Regius professor of Greek, and from 1900 to 1904 professor of ancient history. He was a Commissioner of Education for Ireland and one of the original fellows of the
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
. He was a first cousin to the disgraced modernist writer and excommunicated Catholic priest
George Tyrrell
George Tyrrell (6 February 1861 – 15 July 1909) was an Anglo-Irish Catholic priest and a leading modernist theologian and scholar. A convert from Anglicanism, Tyrrell joined the Jesuit order in 1880. His attempts to adapt Catholic theology ...
SJ.
Works
Amongst his published works were:
* ''Hesperidum Susurri'' (1867), with Thomas J Bellingham Brady and Maxwell Cormac Cullinan+
* Contributions to ''Cottabos'', a Trinity College, Dublin, magazine (from 1868)
ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΟΥ ΒΑΚΧΑΙ The Bacchae of Euripides with a revision of the text and a commentary(1871)
* a translation of ''
The Acharnians
''The Acharnians'' or ''Acharnians'' (Ancient Greek: ''Akharneîs''; Attic: ) is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BC on behalf of the young drama ...
'' of
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states ...
into English verse (1883)
* an edition 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 ...
's ''Letters'' (7 vols., the later vols. with
Dr. Purser, 1879-1900)
* "Dublin Translations into Greek and Latin Verse", editor (1890)
* ''Latin Poetry'' (1893)
* ''Sophocles'' (1897)
* ''Terence'' (1902)
* ''Echoes of Kottabos'' (with Sir E. Sullivan) (1906)
''Essays on Greek Literature''(1909)
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, ''Essays on Greek Literature'', MacMillan and Company, London (1909)
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Notes
External links
* W. B. Stanford
"Robert Yelverton Tyrrell"
''Hermathena'', No. 125, (Winter 1978), pp. 7–21.
References
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1844 births
1914 deaths
Greek–English translators
19th-century translators
Fellows of the British Academy
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