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D. R. Shackleton Bailey
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Born
David Roy Shackleton Bailey

(1917-12-10)10 December 1917
Died28 November 2005(2005-11-28) (aged 87)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationClassical scholar
Years active1944–2005
Spouses
  • Hilary Bardwell
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    ​
    (m. 1967; div. 1975)​
  • Kristine Zvirbulis
    ​
    (m. 1994)​

David Roy Shackleton Bailey

Teubner series), and Cicero, especially his commentaries and translations of Cicero's letters.[1]

Academic career

Bailey was the youngest of four children born to John Henry Shackleton Bailey and Rosmund Maud (née Giles).

Ann Arbor; and in 1976 he moved to Harvard University (whose Classics department he had visited in 1963), first as Professor of Greek and Latin, then (from 1982) as Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. He twice served as the editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1980-1981 and 1983–1985). In 1988 he retired from Harvard and became an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan.[citation needed
]

In 1967 he married

Hilary Ann Bardwell (who was later married to Alastair Boyd), the former wife of the British author Kingsley Amis; this marriage was dissolved in 1975. In 1994 he married Kristine Zvirbulis. He was extremely fond of cats (the first volume of his seven-volume Cambridge University Press edition of the Letters of Cicero is dedicated to Donum, a feline present from Frances Lloyd-Jones) and of classical music.[citation needed
]

In 1958 he earned the double honour of a fellowship of the

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; and an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[citation needed
]

The bulk of his scholarly work focused on Latin philology and Roman history and prosopography. In retirement he prepared many editions for the Loeb Classical Library published by Harvard University Press, including those of Martial, Valerius Maximus, Statius, and the correspondence of Cicero.[citation needed]

He died of

Ann Arbor, Michigan.[6]

Publications (selected)

  • The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātṛceṭa. Sanskrit text, Tibetan translation & commentary and Chinese translation [by I-Ching]. Edited by D.R. Shackleton Bailey. With an introduction, English translation and notes. (1951)[7]
  • Propertiana (Cambridge, 1958).
  • co-ed. W.S. Watt. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae. 4 v. (Oxford, OCT, 1958-1982: v. 2.ii: Ep. ad Atticum, libri ix-xvi, rec. D.R.Sh.-B., 1961)
  • ed. Cicero: Letters to Atticus 7 v. (Cambridge, 1965–70).
  • ed. Cicero: Epistulae ad familiares 2 v. (Cambridge, 1977).
  • trans. Cicero’s letters to his friends (Atlanta, 1978).
  • Cicero’s Letters to Atticus 2 v. (Penguin, 1978).
  • Profile of Horace (Harvard, 1982).
  • ed. Anthologia Latina I fasc. 1: Libri Salmasiani aliorumque carmina (Stuttgart, 1982).
  • ed. Q. Horati Flacci Opera (Stuttgart, 1985).
  • ed. and trans. Cicero: Philippics (Chapel Hill, 1986).
  • ed. M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Atticum 2 v.(Stuttgart, 1987).
  • ed. M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Familiares (Stuttgart, 1988).
  • ed. M. Tulli Ciceronis Epistulae ad Q. Fratrem, ad M. Brutum, Commentariolum petitionis, fragmenta epistularum (Stuttgart, 1988).
  • ed. M. Fabii Quintiliani Declamationes minores (Stuttgart, 1989).
  • Onomasticon to Cicero’s speeches (Stuttgart, 1988, 1991²).
  • trans. Cicero. Back from Exile: Six Speeches upon his Return (Atlanta, 1991).
  • ed. M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili libri X (Stuttgart, 1988; 1997²).
  • ed. M. Valerii Martialis epigrammata (1990).
  • Homoeoteleuton in Latin dactylic verse (Stuttgart, 1994).
  • Onomasticon to Cicero’s letters (Stuttgart, 1995).
  • Onomasticon to Cicero’s treatises (Stuttgart, 1996).
  • Selected classical papers (Ann Arbor, 1997).
  • ed. and trans. Valerius Maximus: Memorable doings and sayings 2 v. (Loeb Classical Library #s 492, 493, Harvard UP, 2000).
  • ed. and trans. Cicero: Letters to friends 3 v. (Loeb Classical Library #s 205, 216, 230, Harvard UP, 2001).
  • ed. and trans. Statius: Silvae (Loeb Classical Library #206, Harvard UP, 2003; corrected ed. 2015).
  • ed. and trans. Statius: Thebaid Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library #207, Harvard UP, 2003).
  • ed. and trans. Statius: Thebaid Books 8-12; Achilleid (Loeb Classical Library #498, Harvard UP, 2003).
  • ed. and trans. Quintilian: The Lesser Declamations 2 v. (Loeb Classical Library #s 500, 501, Harvard UP, 2006).

References

  1. ^ "Professor D. R. Shackleton Bailey Latin scholar whose edition of Cicero's letters is a monument of 20th-century classical scholarship" The Independent Wednesday 4 January 2006 [1]
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Medals and Prizes (Kenyon Medal) - British Academy". Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  6. ^ http://www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2005/12/07/News/Classics.Prof.Loved.Latin.Literature.Cats-1433579.shtml[permanent dead link] Michigan Daily
  7. ISBN 978-0-521-04077-8
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