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Author Grene, David.

Title Of farming & classics : a memoir / David Grene.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography "Selected bibliography, works by David Grene": pages 167-169.
Contents The beginning -- Origins -- Family -- Dublin (with animals) -- The theater -- Tipperary -- Schools -- Trinity College -- Vienna -- Return to Dublin : Ria Mooney -- America -- University of Chicago -- Farming -- Riding to hounds.
Summary A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, the Complete Greek Tragedies. In this charming memoir, which he wrote before his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University o.
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Subject Grene, David.
Grene, David.
Classicists -- United States -- Biography.
Classicists.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Title Of farming and classics
Other Form: Print version: Grene, David. Of farming & classics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006012465
ISBN 9780226308036 (electronic book)
0226308030 (electronic book)
0226308014 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226308012 (cloth ; alkaline paper)