Robert Wood

Statut : classical scholar

1716/17-1771

Notes : Little is known about Robert Wood's early life and education. From the late 1740s he joined James Dawkins and John Bouverie in their expedition to classical and Near Eastern sites, which resulted in the publication of The Ruins of Palmyra (1753) and The Ruins of Balbec (1757). Travels to the Troad prompted an interest in 'poetic geography' and led him to contribute to the Homeric question with an Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer with a Comparative View of the Ancient and Present State of the Troade (published posthumously in 1775, and translated into German (reviewed by Heyne), French, Italian, and Spanish. Wood went on to have a career in politics. He died at the age of fifty-four in the house in Putney which he had bought from the father of Edward Gibbon.

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