Nan Dunbar (18 July 1928 – 3 April 2005) was Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Somerville College, Oxford.
[1][2] She then went on to study at Girton College, Cambridge, where she completed a second degree, achieving a first in both part of the Classical tripos.
[4] Subsequently, she returned to Girton College, Cambridge, where she was a fellow and lecturer in Classics from 1952 to 1957.
[5] In 1957 she moved to the University of St Andrews, and in 1965 became a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Dunbar took almost forty years to produce her "colossal"[8] edition of Aristophanes' Birds with an introduction and commentary.