William Young Sellar (February 22, 1825 - October 12, 1890), Scottish classical scholar, was born at Morvich, Sutherland. February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ...

Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and afterwards at Glasgow University, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, as a scholar. Graduating with a first-class in classics, he was elected fellow of Oriel, and, after holding assistant professorships at Durham, Glasgow and St Andrews, was appointed professor of Greek at St Andrews (1857). In 1863 he was elected professor of humanity in Edinburgh University, and occupied that chair down to his death. The Edinburgh Academy The Edinburgh Academy is a private school that was founded in 1824 to stimulate classical learning in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... The University of Glasgow is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ... College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Triona Giblin Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Oriel College (in full: The House of Blessed Mary the Virgin in Oxford commonly called Oriel College, of the Foundation of Edward the Second of famous memory, sometime King of England), located in Oriel Square, Oxford, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United... The University of Durham is a university in England. ... The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410 and 1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the anglophone world. ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Sellar was one of the most brilliant of modern classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of Roman literature. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ...

His chief works, The Roman Poets of the Republic (3rd ed., 1889) and The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age (Virgil, 3rd ed., 1897), and Thrace and the Elegiac Poets (2nd ed., by WP Ker, 1899), with memoir by Andrew Lang, are standard authorities. For other uses see Virgil (disambiguation). ... Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844 - July 20, 1912) was a prolific Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic but is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. ...

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• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.