Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (January 21, 1844 Ballingarry

Ballingarry

Ballingarry is a village in the barony of Slievardagh, South Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The village is situated near the Kilkenny border on route R691. Ballingarry is located near Slievenamon.-Amenities:On the Main Street may be...

 – September 19, 1914 Dublin) was an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 classical

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

 scholar who was Regius Professor of Greek

Regius Professor of Greek (Trinity)

The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at Trinity College, Dublin. The chair was founded by George III in 1761.-List of Regius Professors of Greek:* Theaker Wilder 1761- * John Stokes 1764-5 * Richard Graves 1810-* Franc Sadleir 1833–1838...

 at Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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Biography

He was educated at Trinity College where he subsequently became a fellow in 1868 and professor of Latin in 1871. From 1880 to 1898, he was Regius professor of Greek, and from 1900 to 1904 professor of ancient history. He was a Commissioner of Education for Ireland and one of the original fellows of the British Academy

British Academy

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Works

Amongst his published works were:

• a translation of The Acharnians
  The Acharnians
  The Acharnians is the third play - and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays - by the great Athenian playwright Aristophanes. It was produced in 425 BCE on behalf of the young dramatist by an associate, Callistratus, and it won first place at the Lenaia festival...
  
  of Aristophanes
  Aristophanes
  Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
  
   into English verse (1883)
• an edition of Cicero
  Cicero
  Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
  
  's Letters (7 vols., the later vols. with Dr. Purser
  Louis Claude Purser
  Louis Claude Purser was an Irish classical scholar.Purser was educated in Dublin, Midleton College, Cork and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen where a fellow pupil and student of classics was Oscar Wilde. In 1897 Purser was appointed Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Dublin. He collaborated...
  
  , 1879-1900)
• Latin Poetry (1893)
• Sophocles (1897)
• Terence (1902)
• Echoes of Kottabos (with Sir E. Sullivan) (1906)
• Essays on Greek Literature (1909)