Oliver Lyne
{{Short description|British academic and classicist}}
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| birth_name = Richard Oliver Allen Marcus Lyne
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|12|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = Peterborough, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|3|17|1944|12|21|df=y}}
| death_place = Marche, Italy
| other_names = R.O.A.M. Lyne
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| alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge
| spouse = {{marriage|Linda Lyne|1969}}
| relatives = Adrian Lyne (brother)
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Richard Oliver Allen Marcus Lyne (21 December 1944 – 17 March 2005), also known as R. O. A. M. Lyne, was a British academic and classicist specialising in Latin poetry. He was a tutor in classics at Balliol College and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.
Early life
Lyne was born on 21 December 1944 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, to Richard and Rosalind Lyne.{{cite news|title=Professor Oliver Lyne: Olympian Balliol classicist|first=Bruno|last=Currie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-oliver-lyne-6149447.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226223304/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-oliver-lyne-6149447.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2014|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=The Independent|date=1 April 2005}} He was educated at Highgate School, then an all-boys private school in London,{{cite news|title=Professor Oliver Lyne|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486690/Professor-Oliver-Lyne.html|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=30 March 2005}} where his father was a teacher of Latin.{{cite news|last=Griffin|first=Jasper|title=Oliver Lyne – Revealing the full beauty of Latin poetry|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/30/guardianobituaries.obituaries|access-date=18 February 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=30 March 2005}} He studied classics at St John's College, Cambridge. His tutor was Guy Lee. In 1966, he graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, also from the University of Cambridge, in 1970. His doctoral supervisor was F. R. D. Goodyear.
Academic career
While undertaking his doctorate, Lyne held two short-term fellowships; at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and at Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1971, he moved to the University of Oxford where he became a Fellow of Balliol College.{{cite news|title=Professor Oliver Lyne|access-date=18 February 2014|newspaper=The Times|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/professor-oliver-lyne-zwdvmbmrxc7|date=5 April 2005}} In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Classical Languages and Literature.
Death
On 17 March 2005, Lyne died at the age of 60 having suffered a cerebral haemorrhage while at his holiday home located in Marche, Italy.{{cite news|last=Spero|first=Josh|title=Oxford mourns Oliver Lyne|url=http://www.cherwell.org/news/2005/04/22/oxford-mourns-oliver-lyne|access-date=18 February 2014|newspaper=Cherwell|date=22 April 2005}}
An edited volume, R. O. A. M. Lyne: Collected Papers on Latin Poetry, was published in 2007 as a memorial to him; the introduction was written by Stephen Harrison.{{cite book |last1=Lyne |first1=R. O. A. M. |last2=Harrison |first2=S. J. |author2-link=Stephen Harrison (classicist) |title=Collected papers on Latin poetry |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199203963}}
Personal life
Lyne married Linda ({{nee|Rees}}) in 1969. He had met her when they were both students. Together they had two children; Raphael, born 1971, and Rosy, born 1973.
His older brother is Adrian Lyne, a film director.
Select works
- {{cite book|title=Ciris: a poem attributed to Vergil|url=https://archive.org/details/cirispoemattribu0000virg|url-access=registration|date=1978|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=052121727X}}
- {{cite book|title=The Latin love poets from Catullus to Horace|date=1980|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198144539}}
- {{cite book|title=Further voices in Vergil's Aeneid|date=1987|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=019814461X}}
- {{cite book|title=Words and the poet: characteristic techniques of style in Vergil's Aeneid|date=1989|publisher=Clarendon|location=Oxford|isbn=0198148968}}
- {{cite book|title=Horace: behind the public poetry|date=1995|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|isbn=0300063229}}
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Category:Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
Category:People from Peterborough
Category:People educated at Highgate School
Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge
Category:English classical scholars
Category:Scholars of Latin literature
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