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Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, DSC, FBA (() 3 December 1921 – () 10 March 2003) 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 ...
Geoffrey S. Kirk beschäftigte sich mit dem homerischen Epos, mit der Philosophie der Vorsokratiker und ganz besonders mit dem griechischen Mythos. Er untersuchte die Bedeutung und Funktion von Mythen in der griechischen Kultur und Literatur und zog dabei auch die Mythen anderer Kulturkreise heran.
5. Mai 2003 · Geoffrey Kirk, who has died aged 81, held the regius chair in Greek at Cambridge University from 1974 to 1982, and was a major figure in the study of the presocratic philosophers and early...
1. Mai 2020 · Born in 1945, Geoffrey Kirk, who died on 10 April, aged 74, had studied at Keble College, Oxford, when Austin Farrer, one of the Church’s most original theologians of the 20th century, was its Warden. As Geoffrey himself acknowledged, he was much influenced by him.
Internationally recognized as a designer, Kirk’s work was developed to give Rolls-Royce and the UK a leading position in powering the world's largest civil aircraft. This was thanks to his outstanding knowledge, experience, and understanding of gas turbine, aero-engine and component design, as well engine performance and aircraft installation.
Geoffrey S. Kirk | Britannica. Contributor. BIOGRAPHY. Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge. Author of The Songs of Homer and others. Primary Contributions (1) Homer was the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
definition of myth and folktale. In myth: Folktales. …taken by the British Classicist Geoffrey S. Kirk, who in Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (1970) uses the term myth to denote stories with an underlying purpose beyond that of simple story-telling and the term folktale to denote stories that reflect simple ...
