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Frank Justus Miller
1858–1938
A gifted classicist and translator, he helped bring Latin literature to modern readers through clear English versions of Ovid and Seneca. His career also reached beyond translation into teaching, scholarship, and academic leadership.
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Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part I. Roman
by Frank Justus Miller
About the author
Born in Tennessee in 1858, Frank Justus Miller became an American classicist, translator, and university administrator whose work helped shape the study of the ancient world for English-speaking readers. He is especially remembered for his Loeb Classical Library translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the tragedies of Seneca, books that kept major Latin texts accessible to students and general readers alike.
Miller studied at Denison and Yale, and his academic career included teaching and leadership roles at several institutions. Alongside his work as a scholar and editor, he also served for many years as president of the American Classical League, reflecting how active he was in the wider world of classical education.
He died in 1938, leaving behind a body of work that still matters to readers interested in mythology, drama, and the long afterlife of Roman literature in translation.