D. C. H. Rieu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

D. C. H. Rieu

British classical scholar

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1916

Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Date of Death: 29-Apr-2008

Profession: classical scholar

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About D. C. H. Rieu

  • Dominic Christopher Henry "D.
  • C.
  • H." Rieu (26 October 1916 – 29 April 2008) was a classical scholar and son of the classicist and publisher E.
  • V.
  • Rieu.
  • After attending Highgate School, he studied English and Classics at Queen's College, Oxford.
  • As part of the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1941, he was injured at Cheren in Eritrea, and subsequently awarded the Military Cross.
  • Rieu served as headmaster of Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury from 1955 until 1977. Rieu did a translation of the Acts of the Apostles in the Penguin Classics series and, with Dr Peter Jones, revised his father's translations of The Odyssey and the Iliad.
  • While acknowledging his father's "towering skill", Rieu made amendments to some undue embroidery of phrase and Greek manners, disdain for anonymous gods, formulaic abuse and modernistic prose.
  • "Some of his racier colloquialisms, however, I have kept, provided they come in dialogue; the narrative passages call for a degree of formality.
  • Poseidon, in his fury with Odysseus, says (literal translation): 'I mean to give him his full trouble yet.' EVR's 'bellyful of trouble' is much livelier -- and typical of the irascible Poseidon."When he and Dr Peter Jones took up the task of revising E.V.
  • Rieu's translation of the Odyssey, they determined to retain (and in places even enhance) its charm.
  • "Our alterations were in fact puny," wrote Rieu Junior in the preface.
  • Although keen to maintain Homer's formulaic construction, he revised the archaic preliminaries used prior to speeches.
  • "The patient good Odysseus answering him said: 'Friends [...]'" becomes "'Friends,' replied the patient good Odysseus [...]". Rieu involved himself in retirement with the Samaritans and Cruse Bereavement Counselling.
  • He wrote myriad books and articles (starting in 1963 with A Life Within A Life) about his life in Subud.

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