Poetic Obituaries: "I thought to myself: 'If I ever get out of this,

I'm going back to the classics and study them seriously.' "

After the war, Bernard Knox became one of the world's foremost scholars of classical literature and served as the founding director of the Harvard University-affiliated Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington.

from The Washington Post: Bernard Knox, 95, dies; one of world's foremost scholars of classical literature

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