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DAVID BINNING MONRO (1836-1905)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 736 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID BINNING See also:MONRO (1836-1905)  , See also:English Homeric See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 16th of See also:November 1836 . He was a See also:grandson of See also:Alexander See also:Monro, tertius (1773-z859), See also:professor of See also:anatomy in Edinburgh University, whose See also:father, Alexander Monro, See also:secundus (1733-1817), and grandfather, Alexander Monro, See also:primus (1697-1767), both filled the same position .. He was educated at See also:Glasgow University, and Brasenose and Balliol Colleges, See also:Oxford . In 1859 he was elected See also:fellow, and in 1882 See also:provost of See also:Oriel, which See also:office he held till his See also:death at Heiden, See also:Switzerland, on the 22nd of See also:August 1905 . He was a See also:man of varied attainments, an excellent linguist, and possessed considerable knowledge of See also:music, See also:painting ' and See also:architecture . His favourite study was See also:Homer, and his See also:Grammar of the Homeric See also:Dialect (2nd ed., 1891) established his reputation as an authority on that author . He also edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the See also:composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the See also:history of the See also:text, the dialects, and the Homeric See also:house; a See also:critical text of the poems and fragments (Homeri See also:opera et reliquiae, 1896); Homeri opera (1902, with T . W . See also:Allen, in Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca oxoniensis); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for See also:schools . His See also:article on Homer, written for the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, was revised by him for this See also:work before he died . Mention may also be made of his Modes of See also:Ancient See also:Greek Music (1894), on which see Classical See also:Review for See also:December 1894, with author's reply in the same for See also:February 1895 . See Memoir by J .

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Cook See also:Wilson (Oxford, 1907) .

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