Armand D'Angour was born on 23 November 1958 and is a British classical scholar and classical musician, Professor of Classics at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford.
16 Facts About Armand D'Angour
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Armand D'Angour writes poetry in ancient Greek and Latin, and was commissioned to compose odes in ancient Greek verse for the 2004 and 2012 Olympic Games.
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Armand D'Angour was born in London and educated at Sussex House School and as a King's Scholar at Eton College.
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Armand D'Angour went on to read classics at Oxford, during which he won the Gaisford Greek Prose Prize, the Chancellor's Latin Verse Prize, the Hertford Scholarship, and the Ireland and Craven Scholarship, and graduated with a Double First.
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Armand D'Angour then studied cello in the Netherlands with cellist Anner Bylsma, and now regularly performs as cellist with the London Brahms Trio.
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From 1987 to 1994 Armand D'Angour worked in and eventually managed a family business.
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Armand D'Angour published an article detailing the technical and political background to the adoption of the Ionic alphabet by a decree of Eucleides in Athens in 403 BC.
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In 2000 Armand D'Angour was appointed Fellow in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford.
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Armand D'Angour extended the chronological scope of this doctoral research to produce The Greeks and the New, a wide-ranging academic study of novelty and innovation in ancient Greece; he has applied the findings of his research to business and to other domains, including music and psychoanalytic theory.
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Armand D'Angour's TedED lessons on Archimedes' Eureka Moment and the Origins of the Ancient Olympics have attracted millions of views.
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Armand D'Angour became Professor of Classics in 2020 Oxford Recognition of Distinction.
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Armand D'Angour has argued for the affective symbolism and tonal basis of Greek music of the Classical period, and for its connection to much later European musical traditions.
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Armand D'Angour subsequently composed music in ancient Greek style to accompany a series of performances of Euripides' play Alcestis staged in the Greek theatre at Bradfield College in June 2019, and his research has inspired other stage performances including that of Euripides' Herakles at Barnard College, Columbia in 2019.
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At the request of Dame Mary Glen-Haig, senior member of the International Olympic Committee, Armand D'Angour composed an Ode to Athens in 2004, in the appropriate Pindaric style, Doric dialect and metre of ancient Greek, together with an English verse translation.
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In 2010 Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, commissioned Armand D'Angour to write an ode in English and Ancient Greek for the London Olympics 2012, and declaimed it at the IOC Opening Gala.
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On behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Armand D'Angour wrote a poem in Latin Sapphics in honour of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies for its 2010 centenary.