George Maximilian Anthony Grube

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George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1899 – 1982) was a classicist and translator of Plato, Aristotle, Demetrius of Phaleron, Longinus, and Marcus Aurelius. He received his Master's degree from Cambridge University in 1925.^[1] He spent most of his career as a professor of classics at the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto. During his tenure there, he was involved in the Toronto branch of the League for Social Reconstruction, serving as president from 1934-1935.

[edit] List of Works

• Plato's Thought. London: Methuen & co. ltd., 1935.
• The Drama of Euripides. London: Methuen & co. ltd., 1941.
• On Great Writing, translation of On the Sublime, by Longinus. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957.
• On Poetry and Style, translation with an introduction of The Poetics, by Aristotle. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1958.
• A Greek Critic, translation with an introduction of On Style, by Demetrius of Phaleron. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961.
• Meditations, translation of same by Marcus Aurelius. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.
• The Greek and Roman Critics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965.
• How Did the Greeks Look at Literature. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 1967.
• The Republic. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1974.
• Plato's Meno. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976.
• Plato's Phaedo. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977.
• Five Dialogues, translation of Euthyphro,Apology of Socrates, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo, by Plato. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists, 755. The Biographical Dictionary incorrectly lists his name as "George Maximilian Alexander" on p. lxvii.