Marcus aurelius biography pdf

British classicist, translator

Arthur Spencer Loat Farquharson (1871–1942), who published as A.

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S. L. Farquharson, was a British classicist, translator and Dean of University College Oxford. His best-known work is the translation of Marcus Aurelius' book, Meditations.

Biography

Arthur Spencer Loat Farquharson was born in 1871. He studied at the University College Oxford from 1890 to 1894, where he "obtained a First both in Mods in 1892 and in Finals in 1894".

Marcus aurelius philosophy

He was a fellow of the university from 1899 to 1942. He was a Dean and read lectures in logic. He participated in revising A Greek–English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. His best-known work is the translation of Marcus Aurelius' book, Meditations. He was also a Colonel of the Territorial Army.^[1] He also translated Aristotle's Progression of Animals and Movement of Animals, published in 1913.^[2][3]

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S. Lewis described his encounter with Farqu