Károly Marót (Arad, 2 March 1885 - Budapest, 27 October 1963), was a Hungarian classical scholar,Ritoók, Zsigmund. (1997
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. Marót specialised in the study of ancient epic, particularly the works of

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Selected publications

*''Der Eid als Tat''. Szegred, Szeged Városi Nyomda és Könyvkiadó, 1924. *''A Görög irodalom kezdetei''. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1956. *''Die Anfänge der Griechischen Litteratur vorfragen''. 1960.

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SZTE Szegedi Tudományegyetem Klasszika-Filológiai Tanszék: Történet
1885 births 1963 deaths People from Arad, Romania 20th-century Hungarian historians Academic staff of the University of Szeged Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungarian classical scholars {{Hungary-historian-stub