C. J. Herington
Cecil John Herington (23 November 1924 – 29 March 1997) was a British-born American classical philologist.
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Biography
Born at Isleworth, Middlesex, in South East England, he studied classical philology at the University of Oxford. From 1946 to 1949, Herington interrupted his studies to serve in the Royal Air Force. After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1949, he worked as an Assistant Lecturer at Oxford. From 1951 to 1959, he was Lecturer at the University of Manchester. From 1956, he taught concurrently at the University of Exeter. After earning a Master's degree at the University of Oxford in 1960, he went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, as Visiting Lecturer and then lived in North America for the reset of his life. From 1962 to 1965, he was Associate Professor of Classics at University College in Toronto.
In 1965, Herington went to the University of Texas at Austin as Professor of Classics. During this time he received several grants: in 1966 from the University of Texas Research Institute, in 1967 from the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 1968 from the Guggenheim Foundation. During the 1969/70 academic year, he served as Chairman of the Department of Classics. In 1972, he moved to Yale University, where he was appointed Professor of Classics and shortly thereafter Talcott Professor of Greek. In the academic year 1970/71 he was Sather Professor at the University of Berkeley, and from 1986 to 1988 he was Substitute Professor at Duke University. After retiring in 1992, he spent his retirement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1994, he received an honorary doctorate from Adelphi University in New York.
Herington's research focus was Greek tragedy, especially that of Aeschylus.
Works
- Athena Parthenos and Athena Polias. A Study in the Religion of Periclean Athens (1955)
- The Author of the Prometheus Bound (1970)
- The Older Scholia on the Prometheus Bound (1972)
- Prometheus Bound (1975; with James Scully)
- Greek Tragedy (1977; with Thomas Gould)
- Aeschylus, Persians (1981; with Janet Lembke)
- Poetry Into Drama: Early Tragedy and the Greek Poetic Tradition (1985; Sather Classical Lectures 49)
- Aeschylus (1986)
References
- Carne-Ross, D.S. (1997). " John Herington, 1924–1997," Arion. A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Vol. V (1), pp. 1–6.
