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David Binning Monro (
November 16,
1836 –
August 22,
1905) was a
Scottish Homeric scholar.
David Monro was born in
Edinburgh, the grandson of
Alexander Monro tertius, professor of
anatomy at the
University of Edinburgh, whose own father,
Alexander Monro secondus (1733–1817), and grandfather,
Alexander Monro primus (1697–1767), had both filled the same position. David Monro was educated at the
University of Glasgow, where he was influenced by
Edmund Law Lushington to become a classical scholar. In 1854 he attended
Brasenose College, Oxford and, later in the same year transferred to
Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a
Snell exhibitioner. In 1859, he was elected Fellow of
Oriel College, Oxford; although he entered
Lincoln's Inn the following year, he became lecturer and then tutor at Oriel. In 1882 he became
Provost of that school, and he held this office until his death at
Heiden,
Switzerland. He also served as
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Oxford from
1901 to
1904.
Monro was a
polymath and
polyglot who possessed considerable knowledge of
music,
painting and
architecture. His favourite study was Homer, and his
Grammar of the Homeric Dialect (2nd ed., 1891) established his reputation as an authority on the subject. He edited the last twelve books of the
Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the composition of the poem, its relation to the
Iliad and the
cyclic poets, the history of the text, the dialects, and the Homeric house; a critical text of the poems and fragments (
Homeri opera et reliquiae, 1896);
Homeri opera (1902, with T. W. Allen, in the
Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); and an edition of the
Iliad with notes for schools.
Monro's article on Homer, written for the 9th edition of the
Encyclopædia Britannica, was revised by him for later versions before he died. He also wrote
Modes of Ancient Greek Music (1894).
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