Professor Harry Jocelyn

Latin scholar with a ruthless critical streak who made sense of the fragments of the tragedies of Ennius

PROFESSOR HARRY JOCELYN, who has died aged 67. was an internationally respected Latin scholar and for 23 years Professor of Latin at Manchester An authority on early Latin texts. Jocelyn made his reputation w ith his doctoral dissertation. a commentary on the surviving fragments of the lost tragedies of the early Roman poet Quintus Ennius which was sumptuously published by the Cambridge University Press in its Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series as The Tragedies of Ennius (1969). The commentary revealed Jocelyn's lin guistic perceptivity and sense of style, as well as his judgment as an interpreter of confused and unreliable secondary sources. The Tragedies of Ennius became...