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Geoffrey Horrocks | |
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| Born | 1951 |
| Education | University of Cambridge (PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | A Study of some Prepositional uses in Homer (1977) |
| Doctoral students | Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy |
Geoffrey Horrocks (born 1951) is a British philologist and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge. [1]
Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Before that he worked at the University of London.
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