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Edward Vernon Arnold

1857–1926

A British classical scholar and Indologist, he brought unusual precision to the study of ancient texts. He is especially remembered for using metrical analysis to explore the chronology of the Rigveda.

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Roman Stoicism being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire

Roman Stoicism being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire

by Edward Vernon Arnold

About the author

Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Edward Vernon Arnold later studied at Tübingen under the Sanskrit scholar Rudolf Roth. He became a fellow of Trinity and went on to serve for four decades as Professor of Latin at University College of North Wales, Bangor.

His work ranged across both classics and Indology, but he is best known for applying careful, almost mathematical analysis to Vedic poetry. That approach shaped his study of the internal chronology of the Rigveda and helped make his scholarship stand out from more purely descriptive work of the period.

Arnold also wrote on Latin and Greek pronunciation and on Stoicism, showing the same interest in language, structure, and intellectual history across very different fields. His career reflects a rare blend of classical training and Sanskrit scholarship.