Peter Jones (classicist)
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Peter V. Jones is a Cambridge graduate with a doctorate on Homer
. He is a former senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
, and co-founded with Jeannie Cohen the Friends of Classics charity. He was also once a teacher but is presently employed as a writer, journalist and broadcaster.
Spokesman for the national Co-ordinating Committee for Classics, Jones penned the series QED and Eureka for the Daily Telegraph. These pieces were subsequently published as Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek by Duckworth, which has also accounted for his Classics in Translation (again from the Daily Telegraph) and Ancient and Modern (from his weekly column in The Spectator). Jones has collaborated for Cambridge on Reading Greek and Reading Latin.
He has recently published a book called "Vote For Caesar" about how ancient civilisations have solved the problems of today.
Awarded the MBE in 1983, Jones has written numerous tomes and essays on Homer.
He is a patron of The Iris Project
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Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
. He is a former senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle University is a major research-intensive university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. It was established as a School of Medicine and Surgery in 1834 and became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne by an Act of Parliament in August 1963. Newcastle University is...
, and co-founded with Jeannie Cohen the Friends of Classics charity. He was also once a teacher but is presently employed as a writer, journalist and broadcaster.
Spokesman for the national Co-ordinating Committee for Classics, Jones penned the series QED and Eureka for the Daily Telegraph. These pieces were subsequently published as Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek by Duckworth, which has also accounted for his Classics in Translation (again from the Daily Telegraph) and Ancient and Modern (from his weekly column in The Spectator). Jones has collaborated for Cambridge on Reading Greek and Reading Latin.
He has recently published a book called "Vote For Caesar" about how ancient civilisations have solved the problems of today.
Awarded the MBE in 1983, Jones has written numerous tomes and essays on Homer.
He is a patron of The Iris Project
The Iris Project
The Iris Project is an educational charity which was started in 2006 by Dr Lorna Robinson in order to bring ancient languages and culture to inner city state schools and communities...
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