PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925-2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ's College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, at Edinburgh University, where he remained for the rest of his career. He headed the Greek Department at Edinburgh from 1980 until his retirement in 1989 and was appointed to a Personal Chair in Greek in 1983.
Ancient music and Greek drama were the main focuses of E.K. Borthwick's academic output, and he had a particular flair for pinpointing, elucidating, and solving textual difficulties. But...