Willem Jacob Verdenius (3 April 1913 – 23 June 1998) was a Dutch classicist.
Life
Born at
The Hague on 3 April 1913,
[W.J. Verdenius]
/ref> he completed his PhD thesis on Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea (; grc-gre, Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia.
Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Elea, from a wealthy and illustrious family. His dates a ...
at Utrecht University in 1942. He became Professor of Greek language and literature at Utrecht University in 1947. In 1965 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...
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Works
* ''Parmenides; some comments on his poem'', 1942.
* (with Jan Hendrik Waszink
Jan Hendrik Waszink (17 October 1908, Renswoude – 5 October 1990, Lugano) was a Dutch Latin scholar, Professor of Latin at Leiden University. Best known as an expert on Tertullian, he also edited the translation and commentary by Calcidius on Pla ...
)
Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away; some comments
', 1946.
*
Mimesis; Plato's doctrine of artistic imitation and its meaning to us
', 1949.
* ''Platenatlas bij Homerus'', 1955.
* ''Beknopte bibliographie voor de studie der Griekse taal- en letterkunde'', 1960.
*
Homer, the educator of the Greeks
', 1970.
*
Pindar's Seventh Olympian Ode. A commentary
', 1972 - a new edition published in 1987, see below
* (with A. H. M. Kessels)
A concise bibliography of Greek language and literature
', 1979.
* ''A commentary on Hesiod Works and days'', 1985.
* ''Commentaries on Pindar'', in 2 vols.:
Vol. 1. Commentaries on Olympian 3, 7, 12, 14
(Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 97, 1987)
Vol. 2. Commentaries on Olympian 1, 10; Nemean 11; Isthmian 2
(Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 101, 1988)
**A third volume with commentaries on Pythian 1, 8, 10 was proposed in the preface to vol. 1, but never published
References
1913 births
1998 deaths
Dutch classical scholars
Hellenists
Utrecht University alumni
Classical scholars of Utrecht University
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Writers from The Hague
Scholars of ancient Greek literature
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