Leonard Greenwood (classicist)

Leonard Hugh Graham Greenwood (30 August 1880 – 16 November 1965) was a New Zealand classical scholar at Cambridge University.

Biography

Greenwood was born at Gisborne, New Zealand, and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in classics. He then lectured at Leeds University 1903–1907 and was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1906–1909. In 1909 he was elected to a fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and taught classics there for 40 years. He died in Cambridge. He was elected a member of the Cambridge Apostles in 1903. Greenwood's father, Graham Lord Greenwood, was the son of the artist Sarah Greenwood.

Publications

• translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, book six, Cambridge University Press, 1909
• translation of Cicero's The Verrine Orations, Heinemann, 1935
• Greek tragedy compared with modern drama, Victoria University College, 1943
• Aspects of Euripidean Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, 1953

External links

• Portraits of Leonard Hugh Graham Greenwood at the National Portrait Gallery, London