John Wight Duff

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John Wight Duff

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According to Wikipedia, John Wight Duff, FBA was a Scottish classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classics at Armstrong College, Durham from 1898 to 1933. Education Born in Dundee on 4 September 1866, Duff was the son of an iron founder, William Duff and his wife, Sarah Fergusson Wight. His grandfather was a well-known brass founder and Provost of Greenock, where the family had a connection with James Watt, the engineer. John attended Aberdeen Grammar School, winning gold medals each year he was at the school and leaving as Latin dux in 1882. He then read classics at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with first-class honours in 1886 and winning the Simpson Prize for best graduate in Ancient Greek. He then completed a classics degree at Pembroke College, Oxford, with an open scholarship, graduating with first-class honours in 1890.

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Minor Latin poets (1935) (42)
The Latin Dual and Poetic Diction (1925) (9)
Roman satire : its outlook on social life (1938) (8)
The Relation of Dogmatism and Scepticism in the Philosophical Treatises of Cicero (2)
The Oxford Classical Dictionary: Classical Studies at the Mid-Century. A Review (1951) (0)
The Paravia Editions of the Minor works of Tacitus (1919) (0)
The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. M. Cary, J. D. Denniston, J. Wight Duff, A. D. Nock, W. D. Ross and H. H. Scullard. Pp. xix + 971. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949. 50s. (1949) (0)
CHAPTER V. MENIPPEAN SATIRE— VARRO, SENECA, PETRONIUS (1936) (0)
The writers of Greece . The writers of Rome (0)
Longfellow's Psalm of Life (0)
Note on the Opening Words of the Odyssey of Livius Andronicus (0)
The Teubner Pliny (1914) (0)
CHAPTER I. SATIRE ANCIENT AND MODERN (1936) (0)
The Encouragement of Latin Literature in the First Century B.C. (1933) (0)

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University of Aberdeen