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Frank Justus Miller
1858–1938
A gifted classicist who helped bring ancient Rome to modern readers, he is best known for clear, lasting English versions of Ovid and Seneca. His work joined scholarship, teaching, and translation in a way that made classical literature feel newly alive.
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Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part I. Roman
by Frank Justus Miller
About the author
Frank Justus Miller was an American classicist, translator, and university administrator whose career stretched across the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He taught Latin and became closely associated with the University of Chicago, where he also took on major academic leadership roles.
He is remembered especially for his English translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Seneca's tragedies for the Loeb Classical Library. Those editions helped open important Latin texts to generations of students and general readers, and they remain the work for which many readers know him today.
Beyond translation, Miller was active in promoting classical study in the United States and served for many years as president of the American Classical League. His career reflects a time when scholars often moved easily between teaching, editing, administration, and public literary culture.