![]() ![]() Grene began his career at Chicago as a classics instructor in 1937 and became one of the five professors who founded the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought in 1947. He was best known for his translations of Herodotus's "History" and such Greek tragedies as Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound," Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and Euripides' "Hippolytus." The translations, published by the University of Chicago Press, have sold more than 1 million copies. ![]() A university spokesman attributed his death to a hemorrhage. David Grene, 89, a retired University of Chicago classics professor who also was one of the five faculty members who founded the school's prestigious Committee on Social Thought, died Sept. ![]()
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