David Grene

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classicist translator university professor

David Grene was a renowned classicist and translator best known for his influential English translations of Greek tragedies and his long association with the University of Chicago.

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Label	Occurrences
David Grene canonical	1

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	classicist ⓘ translator ⓘ university professor ⓘ
affiliation	Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ
coEditorWith	Richmond Lattimore NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Trinity College Dublin ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ
employer	University of Chicago ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Classics ⓘ Greek literature ⓘ translation ⓘ
genre	classical translation ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
hasRole	editor ⓘ scholar of Greek tragedy ⓘ teacher ⓘ
influenced	study of Greek tragedy in the English‑speaking world ⓘ
knownFor	English translations of Greek tragedies ⓘ translations of Aeschylus ⓘ translations of Euripides ⓘ translations of Sophocles ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
laterNationality	American ⓘ
memberOf	University of Chicago faculty NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	David Grene NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	Irish ⓘ
notableStudent	Allan Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ Seth Benardete NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	The Complete Greek Tragedies (co‑edited and translated) NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	classicist ⓘ professor ⓘ translator ⓘ
taughtSubject	Classics ⓘ Greek literature ⓘ
translatedFromLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
workLocation	Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: David Grene
Description of subject: David Grene was a renowned classicist and translator best known for his influential English translations of Greek tragedies and his long association with the University of Chicago.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Committee on Social Thought → hasNotableFaculty → David Grene ⓘ