W. R. Johnson
W. R. Johnson | |
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Photographed in 1984 | |
| Born | July 9, 1933 Trinidad, Colorado, United States |
| Died | April 13, 2024 (aged 90) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical studies |
| Sub-discipline | Latin poetry |
| Institutions | |
| Notable works | Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid (1976) |
Walter Ralph Johnson (July 9, 1933 – April 13, 2024), commonly known as W. Ralph Johnson and published as W. R. Johnson, was an American classicist. He was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1998. He coined the term "Harvard School" to describe interpretations of the Aeneid as opposed to the Roman emperor Augustus and his ideology.