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Geoffrey Kirk

British classical scholar (1921-2003) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 81

Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He published widely on pre-Socratic philosophy and the work of the Greek poet Homer, culminating in a six-volume philological commentary on the Iliad published between 1985 and 1993.

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