Professor Alistair Finch died on a Tuesday in March 2023, in a...

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Professor Alistair Finch died on a Tuesday in March 2023, in a classroom at St John's College, Cambridge, in front of twenty students who would spend the rest of their lives trying to explain what they had just witnessed.

He was sixty-one years old and he was a professor of classical literature—specifically, Homeric epic. He had been at St John's for thirty years. He was known, if he was known at all, as a quiet, eccentric man who wore tweed jackets in summer, spoke to his cat in Ancient Greek, and graded papers with a red pen so aggressively that students whispered he had once given a zero to T.S. Eliot....

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