David Monro (scholar)

[1] David Monro was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he was influenced by Edmund Law Lushington to become a classical scholar.

He edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the history of the text, the dialects, and the Homeric house; a critical text of the poems and fragments (Homeri opera et reliquiae, 1896); Homeri opera (1902, with T. W. Allen, in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for schools.

[1] Monro's article on Homer, written for the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, was revised by him for later versions before he died.

[6][7] Monro himself had left Oriel College c.1000 volumes on comparative philology and mythology, most of which are now on permanent loan to the library of the Taylor Institution in Oxford.

[8] He left his books on Greek Music and Mathematics, and editions of William Thackeray and Matthew Arnold, to friends.