Philip Vellacott
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Philip Humphrey Vellacott (16 January 1907 – 24 August 1997) was an English
classical scholar, known for his numerous translations of Greek tragedy
.
He was born at
During the 1930s, Vellacott taught at
Dulwich College, London. He carried on teaching through the Second World War, as he was a conscientious objector. It was during his time as a teacher that he completed most of his Penguin Books classical translations centred on the works of Aeschylus, Euripides and Theophrastus
.
Vellacott lectured on Greek drama on four tours in the US and spent time as a visiting lecturer at the
University of California at Santa Cruz.[2] He retired in 1967 to Radnorshire
, where he carried on writing until his death in 1997.
In 1939 he married Nancy Agnew. The artist Elisabeth Vellacott was his sister.[1]
Works, other than translations
- Ordinary Latin (1962)
- Writing in Latin: Style and Idiom for Advanced Latin Prose (1970), with D. P. Simpson
- Sophocles and Oedipus: a Study of Oedipus Tyrannus with a New Translation (1971)
- Ironic drama: a Study of Euripides' method and meaning (1975)
- The Logic of Tragedy: Morals and Integrity in Aeschylus' Oresteia (1984)
- The English Reader's Guide to Sophocles' Two Oedipus Plays (1993)
Translations
- Aeschylus: The Oresteian Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides) (1956)
- Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound and other plays (Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians) (1961)
- Euripides: Alcestis and other plays (Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis) (1953) (republished as Three Plays (1972))
- Euripides: The Bacchae and other plays (Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae) (1954)
- Euripides: Medea and other plays (Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles) (1963)
- Euripides: Orestes and other plays (The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis) (1972)
- Theophrastus: The Characters, and Menander: Plays and Fragments (1967)
References
- ^ a b Obituary by Richard Luckett, The Independent, 3 September 1997.
- ^ Euripides: The Bacchae and other plays (Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae) (1954)
External links
- Schmiel, Robert "Review of Ironic Drama: A Study of Euripides' Method and Meaning by Philip Vellacott" The American Journal of Philology Vol. 97, No. 2 (Summer, 1976), pp. 183–185
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