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DE GRUMMOND, William White, III
- Date of Birth: July 24, 1934
- Born City: Centerville
- Born State/Country: LA
- Parents: William White & Julia Young de G.
- Date of Death: July 30, 2022
- Death City: Tallahassee
- Death State/Country: FL
- Married: Nancy Thomson
- Education:
B.S., LSU, 1956; M.A., 1960; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1968; study at ASCSA, 1968.
- Dissertation:
“Saevus. Its Literary Tradition and its Use in Virgil's Aeneid” (UNC, 1968).
- Professional Experience:
Asst. prof. to professor, Florida State U., 1968-2002; vis. prof., U. of the South (Sewanee, TN), 1981; collaborator, L’Année philologique, 1965-8; secretary-treasurer, CAMWS, 1973-5; editor, CJ, 1983-91.
- Publications:
“Virgil's Diomedes,” Phoenix 21 (1967) 40-43; L'Année philologique, bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine. XXXVI, Bibliographie de l'année 1965 et complément d'années antérieures, with J. Marouzeau, J. Ernst, T.R.S. Broughton (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1967); L'année philologique. Bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité grécolatine, XXXVII: Bibliographie de l'année 1966 et complément d'années antérieures, ed. with J. Marouzeau, J. Ernst, T.R.S. Broughton, M. Duvoisin, Pierre Langlois, I. Herb (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1968); “A Note on Catullus 111,” CW 64 (1970) 120-1; “A Note on Catullus 103,” CP 67 (1971) 188-9; “Ennius' induta fuit saeva stola,” CP 67 (1971) 249-52; “Aeneas Despairing,” Hermes 105 (1977) 224-34; “Saevus dolor. The Opening and the Closing of the Aeneid,” VERGILIUS 27 (1981) 48-52; “On the Interpretation of De rerum natura V.1308-49,” A&R 27 (1982) 50-6; “Heracles' Entrance. An Illustration of Euripidean Method,” Eranos 81 (1983) 83-90; “The Animated Implement: a Catullan Source for Virgil's Plough,” Eranos 91 (1993) 75-80; “The ‘Diana Experience’: a Study of the Victims of Diana in Virgil's Aeneid,” in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 8, ed. Carl Deroux (Brussels: Latomus, 1997) 158-94.
- Notes:
While still a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, Will de Grummond was invited to be a collaborator in the American Office of L’Année philologique, recently located in 1965 at the Classics Department under the editorship of T. R. S. Broughton (1900-93) and then in 1968 by George Kennedy. The American Office was responsible for publications in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK and de Grummond was instrumental in the assemblage of an ever-increasing number of publications and a widening of the purview of the project. He and his wife Nancy, whom he had met and married at Chapel Hill, moved to the University of Florida. There in addition to teaching poular courses and maintaining a research program, he gave extraordinary service to CAMWS, first as secretary treasurer during a period of rapid growth and then as editor of CJ.
In the midst of these activities, he maintained his equilibrium in part by running both for his own satisfaction and competitively with track clubs and teams in Tallahassee.
- Sources:
- Author: Ward Briggs