Richmond Lattimore

Born to David and Margaret Barnes Lattimore in Paotingfu , China , he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and from the University Of Oxford in 1932 , then received a Ph.D. from the University Of Illinois in 1934 . He joined the Department of Greek at Bryn Mawr College the following year, and married Alice Bockstahler, with whom he later had two sons, Steven and Alexander. From 1943 to 1946 , Lattimore was absent from his professorial post to serve in the United States Navy , but returned after the war to remain at Bryn Mawr, with periodic visiting positions at other universities, until his retirement in 1971 . He continued to publish poems and translations for the remainder of his life, with two poems appearing in print posthumously.

Lattimore was a Fellow of the Academy Of American Poets , and a member of Phi Beta Kappa , the National Institute Of Arts And Letters , the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences , the American Philosophical Society , the American Philological Association , and the Archaeological Institute Of America , as well as a Fellow of the American Academy At Rome and an Honorary Student at Christ Church, Oxford .

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