Frederico Lourenço

FREDERICO LOURENÇO nasceu em Lisboa, em 1963. Licenciou-se, em 1988, em Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas na Universidade de Lisboa, onde se viria a doutorar (1999) com a tese Euripidean Lyric: metre and textual tradition. É professor da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra e investigador no Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da mesma instituição. Tem-se dedicado à tradução e ao comentário de clássicos da literatura grega e latina (com destaque para Homero, Vergílio e Horácio), assim como ao estudo do Novo Testamento e da versão grega do Antigo Testamento (Septuaginta). Além do estudo da poesia grega, tem-se dedicado à exegese da obra de Platão e Camões. Colaborou com a Cinemateca Portuguesa na elaboração de textos sobre cin

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