Willem Jacob Verdenius (3 April 1913 – 23 June 1998) was a Dutch classicist.
Life Born at The Hague on 3 April 1913,W.J. Verdenius he completed his PhD thesis on Parmenides at Utrecht University in 1942. He became Professor of Greek language and literature at Utrecht University in 1947.Catalogus Professorum: Prof. Dr. W. J. Verdenius In 1965 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died at Zeist on 23 June 1998.
Works Parmenides; some comments on his poem, 1942. (with Jan Hendrik Waszink) Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away; some comments, 1946. Mimesis; Plato's doctrine of artistic imitation and its meaning to us, 1949. Platenatlas bij Homerus, 1955. Beknopte bibliographie voor de studie der Griekse taal- en letterkunde, 1960. Homer, the educator of the Greeks, 1970. Pindar's Seventh Olympian Ode. A commentary, 1972 - a new edition published in 1987, see below (with A. H. M. Kessels) A concise bibliography of Greek language and literature, 1979. A commentary on Hesiod Works and days, 1985. Commentaries on Pindar, in 2 vols.: Vol. 1. Commentaries on Olympian 3, 7, 12, 14 (Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 97, 1987) Vol. 2. Commentaries on Olympian 1, 10; Nemean 11; Isthmian 2 (Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 101, 1988) A third volume with commentaries on Pythian 1, 8, 10 was proposed in the preface to vol. 1, but never published
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