Papers of C A Trypanis 1950-1964

Fletcher, Ian, 1920-1988

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Ian Fletcher was born in 1920 in a nursing home in Streatham, the only child of John Archibald Fletcher (1887?-1968), a farmer and retired army major, and Katherine Margaret Richardson (1888-1979), and grew up in Catford, South London. His family had strong Scottish antecedents and for a while as a young man he spelled his name Iain as a gesture to Scottish nationalism. Fletcher was educated at Dulwich College. At some point in his youth his parents separated and Fletche...

Trypanis, C. A. (Constantine Athanasius), 1909-1993

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C. A. Trypanis

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Constantine Athanasius Trypanis was born in Greece in 1909 and studied law and literature at the University of Athens, gaining a doctorate in 1937 and becoming a reader in 1939. In 1947 he and his wife Aliki came to Oxford where, as Bywater and Sotheby professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek, he was based in Exeter College. Trypanis was a prolific translator of Greek poetry and plays but was also a poet in his own right. When he settled in England he began to attend the ...