John Philip Algernon Gould, FBA (20 December 1927 – 19 October 2001) was a British classical scholar.
[1] Having completed his undergraduate degree, Gould was required to undertake eighteen months of National Service.
[1][2] In 1953, following a lunch with E. R. Dodds, he was offered and accepted the post of college lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford.
[1][2] A year later, he was elected a student (i.e. fellow) of Christ Church and appointed as tutor in Greek and Latin literature.
[1] This left little time for preparing publications, and in his fifteen years at the college, he wrote and published "no more than a few reviews of books".
[2] The same year, his long-time collaboration with David Lewis consisting of a major revision of Pickard-Cambridge's The Dramatic Festivals of Athens was finally published.
[1] This reflected Gould's field of study as literary specialist, with "the deepest interest in historical and cultural contexts".
[2] In addition to his university post, due to his passion for promoting the study of ancient Greek, he served as chair the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) Steering Committee between 1974 and 1979.
[2] He then undertook some part-time teaching at New College, Oxford, and held a visiting fellowship at Stanford University in 1993.