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2 unusual facts about Walter George Headlam


Walter George Headlam

The classical scholar John Edwin Sandys, in his A History of Classical Scholarship (1908), wrote of Headlam, "Only nine days before his death, he had the pleasure of meeting Wilamowitz, who, in the course of his brief visit to Cambridge, said of some of Walter Headlam's Greek verses that, if they had been discovered in an Egyptian papyrus, they would immediately have been recognised by all scholars as true Greek poetry".

Walter George Headlam MA, DLitt, (15 February 1866–20 June 1908) was a British classical scholar and poet, perhaps best remembered for his work on the Mimes of Herodas.



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