George Long

GEORGE LONG was an English classical scholar, historian, editor, and translator whose works include Decline of the Roman Republic, Civil Wars of Rome, and his 1862 translation of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

Long held the position of professor of ancient languages at the University of Virginia and later served as the first professor of Greek at University College London, subsequently holding the chair of Latin there. He was Craven university scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1821 and senior chancellor’s medallist in 1822.

Long also produced translations of Plutarch’s Lives and the Discourses of Epictetus, work that sat alongside his scholarly writing on Roman history.

Long was born at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, and died on August 10, 1879.

George Long’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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