A S F Gow

Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1886-1979) was a classical scholar at Cambridge University specializing in poetry.

He was primarily associated with Trinity College, being a fellow of it from 1911 on, interrupted only by a period as Assistant Master of Eton College, 1914-1925. He was the Brereton Reader in Classics from 1947 to 1951.

Notable work includes editions of Theocritus, Machon, and the Greek Anthology. He was closely associated with A. E. Housman.

Works

  • A. E. Housman A Sketch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936)
  • ed., Theocritus (Cambridge, 1952)
  • ed., Bucolici Graeci (Oxford Classical Texts) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952) ISBN 0-19-814517-9
  • The Greek Anthology: Sources and Ascriptions (London, 1958)
  • ed. with D. Page. The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams (Cambridge, 1965), 2 vols.
  • Machon: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1965)
  • Letters from Cambridge



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