Archibald Young Campbell (1885–1958) was a

classical scholar Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

, translator, and published poet of the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Campbell was born at

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, near

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in 1885, and received his education at

Hamilton Academy Hamilton Academy was a school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The school was described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, and was featured in a 1950 Scottish Seconda ...

and

Fettes College Fettes College () is a co-educational independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus. The school was originally a boarding school for boys only and became co-ed in 1983. In ...

, in

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. In 1904 he went up to St John's College, Cambridge, receiving a

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degree in 1907. After graduation Campbell worked as a lecturer in Classics 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 ...

and the

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before returning to St. John's College as a fellow. In 1922 he was appointed as

Gladstone Professor of Greek The Gladstone Chair of Greek is an academic position that was one of the original endowments of the foundation of the University of Liverpool in 1881. The Chair was named in recognition of the scholarship of W. E. Gladstone, the British prime minis ...

at the University of Liverpool, a position he held until his retirement 1950.University Chairs and their Holders Past and Present
Retrieved 19 October 2010 Campbell lived in Cambridge until his death, but taught at 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 ...

during the year of 1954. Campbell married, and had two daughters and one son.

Publications

Campbell worked on the emendation of '' Horace'' (1924) and published this as ''Horace Odes and Epodes'' (University of Liverpool Press, 1953). In addition to publishing different editions of Horace, Campbell also worked on emending classical texts, such as

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...

and

Aeschylus Aeschylus (, ; grc-gre, Αἰσχύλος ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek ...

. ''The Agamemnon of Aeschylus'' (1936) is his emendation of the texts of Aeschylus.

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St. John's College, Cambridge
1885 births 1958 deaths People educated at Hamilton Academy People educated at Fettes College Scottish classical scholars Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Liverpool 20th-century Scottish poets Scottish male poets 20th-century British male writers People from Blantyre, South Lanarkshire {{UK-poet-stub