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Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke (26 April 1915 – 10 July 1993) was an English
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and
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who was
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of
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Language and Literature at the
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.


Early life

Dilke was born at
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, Sussex, the son of Clement Wentworth Dilke, younger brother of Sir Fisher Wentworth Dilke, 4th Baronet. He studied Classics at Stowe School and
King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...
from which he held an MA.


Academic career

Dilke was appointed a Lecturer at University College, Hull (which later became the
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) in 1946. From 1950 to 1967 he was a Lecturer (from 1963
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) at the
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. In 1967 he became
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of
Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
Language and Literature at the
University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...
, a post he held until he retired with the title Emeritus
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in 1980. Dilke helped establish the Varronian Institute in Rieti. He is known for his scholarship of Latin language and text, studies of Greek theatres, and, in particular, his work on ancient
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and land surveying. Among his best known books are ''The Roman land surveyors'' (1971) and ''Greek and Roman maps'' (1985).


Publications


Books

* 1961. ''Lucan, poet of freedom. Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University by O.A.W. Dilke.''Grahamstown,
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. * 1971. ''The Roman Land Surveyors. An introduction to the Agrimensores''. Newton Abbot:
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. * 1975. ''The ancient Romans : how they lived and worked''. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. * 1977. ''Roman Books and their Impact.'' Leeds: The Elmete Press. * 1980. ''Surveying the Roman way''.
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. * 1985. ''Greek and Roman Maps''. Ithaca NY:
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. * 1987. ''Mathematics and measurement''. Berkeley:
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; London:
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. . **.


Articles & Chapters

* 1948.
The Greek Theatre Cavea
" ''The Annual of the British School at Athens'' 43:125-192. * 1967. "Illustrations from Roman surveyors’ manuals." '' Imago Mundi'' 21.1:9-30. * 1974. "Archaeological and epigraphic evidence of Roman land surveys," in H. Temporini (ed.) ''Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt'' (2 Principat 1): 564-592. Berlin & New York: W. de Gruyter. * 1992. "Insights in the ''Corpus Agrimensorum'' into surveying methods and mapping," in O. Behrends & L. Capogrossi Colognesi (ed.) ''Die römische Feldmeßkunst. Interdisciplinäre Beiträge zu ihrer Bedeutung für die Zivilisationsgeschichte Roms (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse 3,193)'': 337-347. Göttingen:
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.


References


See also

* Dilke baronets {{DEFAULTSORT:Dilke, Oswald A.W. English classical scholars 1915 births 1993 deaths People educated at Stowe School Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Hull Academics of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Leeds Classical scholars of the University of Glasgow Classical scholars of the University of Leeds