John Dewar Denniston

John Dewar Denniston (4 March 1887 in India – 2 May 1949 in Church Stretton)[1] was a British classical scholar.

His parents were James Lawson Denniston, of the Indian Civil Service, and Agnes Guthrie. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He took a First in Classical Moderations (Greek and Latin) in 1908 and a Second in Literae Humaniores (philosophy and ancient history) in 1910.[2]. He was Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford from 1913 until his death.

He served in the First World War, 1914-18, 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers and General Staff War Office. He was twice wounded; he gained the distinctions of Croix de Guerre and O.B.E.[3]

Publications
  • Greek Literary Criticism (1924)
  • Cicero Philippics I and II (1925)
  • The Greek Particles (1934)
  • Euripides' Electra (1939)
  • Oxford Classical Dictionary co-editor, (1949)
  • Greek Prose Style (1952)
  • Aeschylus' Agamemnon edited with Denys Page, (1957)
gollark: Nim is an interesting possibility which I may investigate, yes.
gollark: I feel like that would just be OCaml but the ecosystem is even more nonexistent.
gollark: It has nice features but also horrible things.
gollark: I tried using it for stuff and I disliked it.
gollark: Haskell is obviously no, Python is quite slow and has different ecosystem problems as well as a remarkable amount of weird inconsistency, JS dependencies break after about 5 months and it's an awful language, Rust is somewhat nice but annoying compared to higher level languages, Clojure is maybe good however Lisp and also Java (well, JVM), and... that's about it?

References
  1. Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum
  2. Oxford University Calendar 1913, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1913. pp. 183, 218
  3. Who's Who 1948, London : A. & C. Black, 1948, p.726.


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