A. S. F. Gow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

A. S. F. Gow

classical scholar

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1886

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1978

Profession: university teacher, researcher, classical scholar, hellenist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (27 August 1886 – 2 February 1978) was an English classical scholar and teacher.
Apart from eleven years as a master at Eton College between 1914 and 1925 his career was entirely at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Trinity, Gow was a colleague and friend of A.
E.
Housman, on whose works he became an authority.
The two men shared a sharp-tongued scholarly intolerance of anything they saw as slipshod, pretentious or badly thought-through, but Gow nonetheless won the affection of many of his students.
He was Housman's literary executor, and published a book about his friend shortly after Housman's death. Gow's principal subject as a scholar was the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, his works on whom remain a core source for modern students of the poet.