• Lloyd, Robert Bruce
  • Date of Birth: July 10, 1926
  • Born City: Toledo
  • Born State/Country: OH
  • Parents: Marshall Wesley & Rachel Marie Navarre L.
  • Date of Death: June 19, 2020
  • Death City: Lynchburg
  • Death State/Country: VA
  • Married: Angela Davies Pardington, August 11, 1951.
  • Education:

    A.B., Oberlin, 1948; M.A., Johns Hopkins, 1949; Ph.D., 1952.

  • Dissertation:

    “Servius and the Scholia Danielis on the Latin Authors of the Republic” (Johns Hopkins, 1952).

  • Professional Experience:

    Instr. Classics, Oberlin, 1952-6; asst. prof. Cornell College, 1956-8; asst. prof. to assoc. prof., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, 1958-64; prof. & chairman of dept., 1964-73; Charles A. Dana Professor of Classics,1973-81; Mary Frances Williams Chair of Humanities, 1982-??? Fellow, Fulbright, 1966-7; ed., Vergilius, 1980-5; dir. summer programs, Vergilian Society of America; AP Latin teacher, Seven Hills School, Lynchburg, VA.

  • Publications:

    “On Aeneid III.270-280,”AJP 75 (1954) 288-99; “Penatibus et magnis dis,” AJP 77 (1956) 38-46; “The Character of Anchises in the Aeneid,” TAPA 88 (1957) 44-55; “Aeneid III and the Aeneas Legend,” AJP 78 (1957) 382-400; “Republican Authors in Servius and the Scholia Danielis,” HSCP 65 (1961) 291-341; “Aeneid III, a New Approach,” AJP 78 (1957) 133-41; “Two Prologues, Menander and Plautus,” AJP 84 (1963) 146-61; “Superbus in the Aeneid,” AJP 93 (1972) 125-32; “Humor in the Aeneid,” CJ 72 (1977) 250-7; “The Aqua Virgo, Euripus and Pons Agrippae,”AJA 83 (1979) 193-204; “Three Monumental Gardens on the Marble Plan,” AJA 86 (1982) 91-100; “Plautus and Terence in Vergil: a Servian Perspective,” in The Two Worlds of the Poet: New Perspectives on Vergil, ed. Robert McKay Wilhelm & Howard Jones (Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1992) 244-53; articles on Roman mythology in Encyclopedia Brittanica.

  • Sources:

    DAS, 8th ed., 3:315.

  • Author: Ward Briggs