Willem Jacob Verdenius (3 April 1913 – 23 June 1998) was a Dutch classicist.

Life

Born at

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

on 3 April 1913,W.J. Verdenius
/ref> he completed his PhD thesis on

Parmenides Parmenides of Elea (; ; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a Pre-Socratic philosophy, pre-Socratic ancient Greece, Greek philosopher from Velia, Elea in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy). Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Veli ...

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

in 1942. He became Professor of Greek language and literature at

in 1947. In 1965 he became member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

. He died at

Zeist Zeist () is the Capital city, capital and largest town of the Zeist (municipality), municipality of Zeist. The town is located in the Utrecht (province), Utrecht province of the Netherlands, east of the city of Utrecht. History The town of " ...

on 23 June 1998.

Works

* ''Parmenides; some comments on his poem'', 1942. * (with

Jan Hendrik Waszink Jan Hendrik Waszink (17 October 1908, Renswoude – 5 October 1990, Lugano) was a Dutch Latin scholar, Professor of Latin at Leiden University. Best known as an expert on Tertullian, he also edited the translation and commentary by Calcidius on Pla ...

)
Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away; some comments
', 1946. *
Mimesis; Plato's doctrine of artistic imitation and its meaning to us
', 1949. * ''Platenatlas bij Homerus'', 1955. * ''Beknopte bibliographie voor de studie der Griekse taal- en letterkunde'', 1960. *
Homer, the educator of the Greeks
', 1970. *
Pindar's Seventh Olympian Ode. A commentary
', 1972 - a new edition published in 1987, see below * (with A. H. M. Kessels)
A concise bibliography of Greek language and literature
', 1979. * ''A commentary on Hesiod Works and days'', 1985. * ''Commentaries on Pindar'', in 2 vols.:
Vol. 1. Commentaries on Olympian 3, 7, 12, 14
(Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 97, 1987)
Vol. 2. Commentaries on Olympian 1, 10; Nemean 11; Isthmian 2
(Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 101, 1988) **A third volume with commentaries on Pythian 1, 8, 10 was proposed in the preface to vol. 1, but never published

References

1913 births 1998 deaths Dutch classical scholars Hellenists Utrecht University alumni Classical scholars of Utrecht University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Writers from The Hague Scholars of ancient Greek literature {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub