Sir Denys Lionel Page was a British classicist and textual critic who served as the 34th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and the 35th Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.
19 Facts About Denys Page
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Denys Page is best known for his critical editions of the Ancient Greek lyric poets and tragedians.
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Denys Lionel Page was born on 11 May 1908 in Reading, Berkshire, to Frederick Page, a railway engineer at the Great Western Railway and his wife Elsie.
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Denys Page graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1930 and was awarded a Derby Scholarship.
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In 1931, Denys Page was appointed a lecturer at Christ Church and became a Student the following year.
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In 1939, Denys Page was recruited to the Government Code and Cypher School and posted to Bletchley Park.
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Denys Page was duly elected a fellow of Trinity College.
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Similarly to his time at Oxford, Denys Page actively participated in the running of the university.
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Denys Page held this position until his retirement in 1973.
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In 1955, Lobel and Denys Page published a critical edition of the poems of the Lesbian poets Alcaeus and Sappho, followed by a book on the same authors.
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Denys Page was the sole author of studies on Homer's Odyssey and the Iliad.
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Denys Page has been described by Lloyd-Jones as the most accomplished scholar amongst his contemporaries in this field, rivalled only by Edgar Lobel.
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An accomplished textual critic, Denys Page was not among the leading literary critics of his generation.
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Denys Page's focus lay narrowly on philological questions and, according to Lloyd-Jones, he sometimes exhibited a tendency towards dogmatism when dealing with literary matters.
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Denys Page was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1952 and was awarded the institution's Kenyon Medal in 1969.
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Denys Page later served as the academy's president from 1971 to 1974.
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Denys Page was a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Greek Humanistic Society.
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Denys Page was granted honorary fellowships by Trinity College, Cambridge, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Denys Page held honorary degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Dublin, Newcastle, Hull, and Bristol.