Philip Sherrard
| Philip Sherrard | |
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Photo by Dimitri Papadimos
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| Born |
23 September 1922 Oxford, England |
| Died | 30 May 1995 (aged 72) London, England |
| Occupation | Author, translator, theologian |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | Anglo-Irish |
| Education | Dauntsey's School, Wiltshire |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse College, Cambridge; King's College, London |
| Subject | Modern Greek studies, Orthodox Christianity, the environment |
| Notable works |
The Greek East and the Latin West The Rape of Man and Nature The Marble Threshing Floor |
| Spouse | Anna Mirodia Denise Harvey |
| Children | 2 daughters |
Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (23 September 1922 – 30 May 1995) was a British author, translator and philosopher. His work includes important translations of Modern Greek poets, and books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthetics. A pioneer of Modern Greek studies in England, he was influential in making major Greek poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known in the English-speaking world. He was also a prolific writer on theological and philosophical themes, addressing the origins of the social and spiritual crisis he believed was occurring in the developed world, and specifically exploring modern attitudes towards the environment from a Christian perspective.
Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard was born on 23 September 1922 in Oxford. His family had many connections with the literary world of the period: his mother, Brynhild Olivier, had been a member of Rupert Brooke's circle before the First World War and his half-sister was married to Quentin Bell, the nephew of Virginia Woolf. He was educated at Dauntsey's School and at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he obtained a degree in history.
Sherrard first came to Greece as a soldier after the liberation of Athens in 1946. The culture and traditional way of life of the country made a profound impression on him. At this time he first corresponded with the poet George Seferis, whose work he was subsequently to translate into English. He also met and married his first wife, Anna Mirodia. After living for a period in London, he returned to Greece to serve as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens in 1951-52 and again in 1957-62. His doctoral thesis on the Greek poets Solomos, Palamas, Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos and Seferis (King's College, London) was published in 1956 as The Marble Threshing Floor. In the same year he was baptised in the Orthodox Church.
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