'Adventurous' classical scholar Pietro Pucci dies at 96
ITHACA, New York, April 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) while maintaining a place among leading intellectuals in Europe, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.
Remembered as "one of the last of a generation" of classical philologists, Pucci brought fresh insight to ancient texts, acco . . .
Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) while maintaining a place among leading intellectuals in Europe, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.
Remembered as "one of the last of a generation" of classical philologists, Pucci brought fresh insight to ancient texts, acco . . .