Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922–2009)

Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, was one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek literature. A graduate of Oxford (Christ Church), he taught at Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Chicago, and Harvard. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Thessalonica, Göttingen. His books include Menandri Dyscolus (1960); The Justice of Zeus (1971); Blood for the Ghosts (1982); Classical Survivals (1982); (with P.J. Parsons) Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclis Fabulae (1990); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclea (1990); Academic Papers I (Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy) and II (Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea) (1990); Greek in a Cold Climate (1991); Sophocles: Second Thoughts (1997); and translations of Aeschylus' Oresteia. He also completed a three-volume translation of Sophocles for Harvard's Loeb Classical Library series. He was elected a member of the British Academy in 1966, the American Philosophical Society in 1992, and received a knighthood in 1989. Married to Mary Lefkowitz.