David Grene (13 April 1913 – 10 September 2002) was an Irish American professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death.
His translations include Herodotus' Histories, Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Electra, and Philoctetes and Euripides's Hippolytus.
[1] Grene was a close friend and colleague of philosopher Allan Bloom and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow.
Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where his father took his first degree.
[8] The body of Andrew Grene was brought home to Belturbet, County Cavan on 30 January 2010 and buried beside his father after a funeral the following day.