Robert J. Getty
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American classical philologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert John Getty was a Classicist and expert on the ancient author Lucan. Getty earned an A.B. from Queens University, Belfast, in 1928 and a master's degree from St John's College, Cambridge in 1930, where he was lecturer from 1937–1947. He became professor of Latin at the University of Toronto in 1947. In 1958 he became the first George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Romulus, Roma, and Augustus in the Sixth Book of the Aeneid (1950) (33)
- Drying Air with Activated Alumina under Adiabatic Conditions (1964) (12)
- The Astrology of P. Nigidius Figulus (Lucan I, 649–65) (1941) (7)
- Insomnia in the Lexica (1933) (6)
- The Date of Composition of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus (1936) (5)
- M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili liber I (1940) (5)
- The lost St. Gall Ms. of Valerius Flaccus (1934) (3)
- "Liber et Alma Ceres" in Vergil "Georgics" 1. 7 (1951) (3)
- Portrait of Horace (1949) (3)
- The Introduction to the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus (1940) (3)
- Latin Elegiac Verse: A Study of the Metrical Usages of Tibullus, Propertius and ovid. Maurice Platnauer (1953) (3)
- Observations on the First Book of Lucan (1936) (2)
- An Unfinished Autobiography. With Contributions by His Friends (1960) (2)
- Neopythagoreanism and Mathematical Symmetry in Lucan, De bello civili 1 (1960) (2)
- Penetralia and Penetrabilia in Post-Classical Latin (1936) (1)
- C. S. Floratos, H ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΙΑ ΤΟϒ P. Nigidius Figulus (M. Annaei Lucani Belli Civilis I 639–673). Athens: The Author, 1958. Pp. 50. Price not stated. (1961) (1)
- The Saint Germain MS. of the Thebaid (Paris B.N. 13046) (1933) (1)
- L'unité et la clarté des Epitres d'Horace. Etude sur sept pièces du premier livre (1964) (1)
- The Odes and Epodes of Horace. A Modern English Verse Translation (1960) (1)
- R. E. H. Westendorp Boerma, P. Vergili Maronis Catalepton . Pars Prior. Assen (Holland): in aedibus ‘De Torenlaan’, 1949. Pp. xlix + 168, with I plate. $3.80. (1950) (0)
- Some Astronomical Cruces in the Georgics (1948) (0)
- Some Oxford Compositions. J. G. Barrington-Ward , J. Bell , C. M. Bowra , A. N. Bryan-Brown , J. D. Denniston , T. F. Higham , M. Platnauer (1951) (0)
- East and West in Lucan 1. 15 and Elsewhere (1951) (0)
- Astrology in Roman Law and Politics. Frederick H. Cramer (1956) (0)
- Briefs - "Drying Air with Activated Alumina Under Adiabatic Conditions" (1964) (0)
- Note on the Turonensis (1933) (0)
- IV. Bentley and Classical Scholarship in North America (1962) (0)
- W. Beare, The Roman Stage. A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic . 2nd edition. London: Methuen, 1955. Pp. XIV + 365 with 8 plates and 8 text illustrations. 37s. 6d. (1955) (0)
- Alexander Souter, A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949. Pp. XXXII + 454. 42s. (1950) (0)
- Recent Work on Horace (1945-1957) (1959) (0)
- William H. Schulte: Index Verborum Valerianus. Pp. 180. (Iowa Studies in Classical Philology, III.) Paper, $2.50 (copies to be obtained from the author, c/o Columbia College, Dubuque, Iowa). (1936) (0)
- Recent Work on Horace (1945-1957): Supplementary Note (1959) (0)
- Further Discussion of Some Oxford Compositions (1954) (0)
- The Loeb Valerius Flaccus (1935) (0)
- Contributors (1966) (0)
- Albert Severyns. Texte et apparat: Histoire critique d'une tradition imprimée (1963) (0)
- Quelques aspects de la formation du latin littéraire. J. Marouzeau (1952) (0)
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