Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones FBA (21 September 1922 – 5 October 2009^[1]) was a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

Early life and education

Lloyd-Jones was educated at

Lloyd-Jones supervised many distinguished D. Phil. students, including Martin Litchfield West. In his inaugural address as Regius Professor in 1961 he called for a reduction in the emphasis laid on composition taught to undergraduates and suggested that Honour Moderations might have to be reformed to encompass studies taken from ancient philosophy and history as well as the traditional literature and language.^[1]

He contributed editions of Menander's Dyscolus (1960) and of Sophocles (1990, together with Nigel Wilson) to the Oxford Classical Texts, and editions and translations of the Aeschylean fragments (1960) and of Sophocles (2000) to the Loeb Classical Library.^[1]

Lloyd-Jones was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1966^[5] and was a member of five foreign academies, holding honorary doctorates from the universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, Göttingen and Thessaloniki. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.^[6][7] His retirement from the Regius Chair in 1989, after twenty-nine years, was marked by a knighthood.^[2]

He married his second wife Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, in 1982, and spent his last 27 years at their home in Wellesley.

Major publications

• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)
• ________ Classical Survivals: The Classics in the Modern World (London: Duckworth, 1982)
• ________ Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion, and Miscellanea: The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1990)
• ________ Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy: The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1990)
• ________ Greek in a Cold Climate (London: Duckworth, 1991)
• ________ The Justice of Zeus (2nd ed. Sather Classical Lectures, no. 42. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
• ________ Mythical Beasts (London: Duckworth, 1980)
• ________ Myths of the Zodiac (New York: St. Martin's, 1978)
• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, ed., Females of the Species: Semonides on Women (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes, 1975)
• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, and Nigel Guy Wilson, Sophoclea: Studies on the Text of Sophocles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1990)
• ________ Sophocles: Second Thoughts (Hypomnemata, no. 100. Götttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1997)
• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, and Nigel Guy Wilson, eds., Sophoclis Fabulae, Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis (Oxford Classical Texts) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)

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