Vellacott lectured on Greek drama on four tours in the US and spent time as a visiting lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz.[2] He retired in 1967 to Radnorshire, where he carried on writing until his death in 1997.
In 1939 he married Nancy Agnew. The artist Elisabeth Vellacott was his sister.[1]
Works, other than translations
Ordinary Latin (1962)
Writing in Latin: Style and Idiom for Advanced Latin Prose (1970), with D. P. Simpson
Sophocles and Oedipus: a Study of Oedipus Tyrannus with a New Translation (1971)
Ironic drama: a Study of Euripides' method and meaning (1975)
The Logic of Tragedy: Morals and Integrity in Aeschylus' Oresteia (1984)
The English Reader's Guide to Sophocles' Two Oedipus Plays (1993)
Translations
Aeschylus: The Oresteian Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Choephori, The Eumenides) (1956)
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound and other plays (Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians) (1961)
Euripides: Alcestis and other plays (Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis) (1953) (republished as Three Plays (1972))
Euripides: The Bacchae and other plays (Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae) (1954)
Euripides: Medea and other plays (Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles) (1963)
Euripides: Orestes and other plays (The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis) (1972)
Theophrastus: The Characters, and Menander: Plays and Fragments (1967)
References
^ a bObituary by Richard Luckett, The Independent, 3 September 1997.
^Euripides: The Bacchae and other plays (Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae) (1954)
External links
Schmiel, Robert "Review of Ironic Drama: A Study of Euripides' Method and Meaning by Philip Vellacott" The American Journal of Philology Vol. 97, No. 2 (Summer, 1976), pp. 183–185