Robert Maxwell Ogilvie
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Robert Maxwell Ogilvie
FRSE FSA FBA DLitt (5 June 1932 – 7 November 1981) was a British scholar of Latin literature and classical philology.[1]
Life
His parents were Sir
director-general of the BBC from 1938 to 1942, and Lady (Mary) Ogilvie (née Macaulay) (1900–1990), principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, from 1953 to 1966.[2]
He was educated at
Ogilvie became a Fellow of Balliol College in 1957 and from 1957 to 1970 tutored students.
He was headmaster of Tonbridge School from 1970 to 1975.
From 1975 Ogilvie was professor of
.In 1979 he was elected a Fellow of the
Geoffrey Barrow and Matthew Black.[3]
He died suddenly in St Andrews on 7 November 1981.[5]
Family
In 1959 he married Jennifer Margaret Roberts.
Selected works
- A commentary on Livy, books 1–5 (1965). ISBN 9780198144328
- De vita Agricolae (1967).
- The Romans and their gods in the age of Augustus (1970). ISBN 9780393053999
- The library of Lactantius (1978). ISBN 9780198266457
- Roman literature and society (1980). ISBN 9780140220810
He was co-editor of Classical Quarterly from 1976 until death.[5]
References
- ^ Long A. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie. The Classical Quarterly. 1982;32(1):1-1. doi:10.1017/S0009838800022722
- ^ "Robert Maxwell Ogilvie". 5 June 1932.
- ^ ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 452.
- ^ S2CID 170768892.
- A. Long in Classical Quarterly 32.1 (1982) 1.
- "† Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, 1932–1981" by Russell Meiggs (Biographical memoir; published in Proceedings of the British Academy 68, 627–636).
