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Owen, Eric Trevor
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Dates of existence
1882-1948
History
Eric Trevor Owen, father of Gerald Owen, was a professor of Greek at University College and at Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Owen has published a number of works on Classical Greek literature, which include: On Aristotle's Explanation of Aesthetic Pleasure (1932), Tragedy and the First Tragedian (1934), Sophocles the Dramatist (1936), Drama in Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus (1940), The Story of the Iliad (1947), The Illusion of Thought (1948), and The Harmony of Aeschylus, which was assembled from Owen’s notes after his death and edited by his other son, Ivan Owen, and published in 1952.