Alexander F. Garvie
Alexander F. Garvie FRSE | |
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Greek Tragedy Aeschylus | |
Institutions | University of Glasgow |
Doctoral students | Douglas Cairns |
Alexander Femister Garvie is a British classicist and Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. Garvie's career at Glasgow spanned 39 years across the Departments of Greek and Classics, rising from Assistant Lecturer in 1960 to Professor of Classics in 1998. He is best known for his commentaries on Aeschylus, and especially for his seminal commentary on Aeschylus' Choephori.
Early life
Garvie was born in Edinburgh in 1934 and received his education at George Watson’s College.[1] It was at George Watson's that Garvie was first taught Greek when the Classics Master, John Penman, announced that selected pupils would be giving up science in order to take up Greek.[1]
Career
Garvie graduated from the
As an undergraduate, Gavie attended Denys Page’s lectures on Greek textual criticism, which were based on Aeschylus’ Persae.[1] Page suggested to Garvie that he embark on PhD research on the dating of Aeschylus' Suppliants. Page supervised Garvie's work, which would later be published as Aeschylus’ Supplices: Play and trilogy (Cambridge, 1969), but he never formally completed the PhD as he had secured employment as an Assistant Lecturer in Greek at the University of Glasgow, being one of the first appointments made by the new Professor of Greek, A. W. Gomme’s successor, D. J. Allan.[1][2]
Research fellowships and accolades
Garvie was Gillespie Professor at the
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4]
A Festschrift was published in his honour in 2006, entitled Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and his fellow tragedians in honour of Alexander F. Garvie, and featured contributions from Oliver Taplin, Jean Bollack, Martin Hose, Martin West, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, P. E. Easterling, Douglas Cairns, and Elizabeth Craik.[5]
Scholarship
Garvie's scholarship has focused on the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, on whom he has published highly regarded commentaries of his
Selected works
- Garvie, A. F. (1969), Aeschylus’ Supplices: Play and trilogy, Cambridge University Press, viii + 279.
- Garvie, A. F. (1970), ‘The opening of the Choephori’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 17, 79–91.
- Garvie, A. F. (1986), Aeschylus, Choephori: With introduction and commentary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, lx + 394.
- Garvie, A. F. (1994), Homer, Odyssey Books VI–VIII, edited with Introduction and Commentary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, viii + 368.
- Garvie, A. F. (1998), Sophocles, Ajax: Edited with introduction, translation and commentary, Warminster, Aris & Phillips, vi + 266.
- Garvie, A. F. (2009), Aeschylus: Persae: with Introduction and Commentary, Oxford, OUP.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-910589-56-4.
- ISBN 978-1-904675-36-5.
- ISBN 978-0-946724-36-9.
- ^ "Professor Alexander Garvie". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ISSN 1055-7660.
- JSTOR 4620753.
- ^ West, Martin (1987). "Review of A. F. Garvie (ed.), Aeschylus: Choephori (Oxford, 1986)". Gnomon. 59: 193–8.