Armand D'Angour
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23 November 1958 London |
| Thesis | The dynamics of innovation : newness and novelty in the Athens of Aristophanes (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Lunt Richard Janko Alan Griffiths |
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Armand D'Angour (born 23 November 1958) is a British classical scholar and classical musician, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. His research embraces a wide range of areas across ancient Greek culture, and has resulted in publications that contribute to scholarship on ancient Greek music and metre, the Greek alphabet, innovation in ancient Greece, and Latin and Greek lyric poetry. He has written poetry in ancient Greek and Latin, and was commissioned to compose odes in ancient Greek for the 2004 and 2012 Olympic Games (the latter commissioned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson). In 2013 he was awarded a Research Fellowship by the British Academy to investigate the way music interacted with poetic texts in ancient Greece.
D'Angour was born in London and educated at Sussex House School and as a King's Scholar at Eton College. While at Eton he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1976, the last year in which the original twelve exams in Classics and Divinity were set, and was awarded a Postmastership (academic scholarship) to Merton College, Oxford to read Classics. From 1976 to 1979 he studied piano with Angus Morrison and cello with Anna Shuttleworth and Joan Dickson at the Royal College of Music, London. At Oxford (1979–83) he won the Gaisford Greek Prose Prize, the Chancellor's Latin Verse Prize, the Hertford Scholarship and the Ireland and Craven Scholarship, and graduated with a Double First (BA Hons, Literae Humaniores). In 1983, he sat for a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, but was unsuccessful. He then studied cello in the Netherlands with cellist Anner Bylsma, and now performs as cellist with the London Brahms Trio.
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