Douglass Parker

[1][2] Parker is known for his work in Greek and Roman comedy, particularly his translations of Aristophanes’ plays Lysistrata (1964), The Wasps (1962) and The Congresswomen (Ecclesiazusae) (1967).

[4] Parker was Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin for forty years, recruited there in 1967 by William Arrowsmith.

He taught classes in Greek and Latin languages and literature, as well as a discipline of his own creation, parageography—the study of imaginary worlds.

[9][10] In 2011, the journal Didaskalia dedicated its new endeavors to "Douglass Parker, who embodied the interplay between scholarship and practice, between an acute understanding of the ancient world and a keen sense of modern audience.

In that review, titled "Hwaet We Holbytla ...", he rebutted Edmund Wilson's "rather nasty"[13] attack on the book,[14] calling the novel "probably the most original and varied creation ever seen in the genre, and certainly the most self-consistent".