Michael M. Wigodsky *64

Michael Wigodsky, retired professor of classics at Stanford University, died May 9, 2014, of cancer. He was 78.

He graduated from the University of Texas in 1957, and was awarded a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton in 1964. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1960 to 1961.

After teaching as an instructor at Florida State University for a year, he went to Stanford in 1962 and remained there until 1998, when he retired as a full professor.

In 1972 he published his book, Virgil and Early Latin Poetry, which was followed by several articles on Latin poetry, as well as on the Epicurean library in Herculaneum and its associations with Virgil and Horace.

He was a faithful member of the West Coast Aristotelian Society until recently, when he began losing a long battle against cancer.

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