classicist

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Ms. Kuin, a classicist at the University of Virginia, presents many of them in “Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

“He’s such a technician and this classicist and also contemporary and free — he’s an investigator, you know?”

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Nick Hammond, the classicist head tutor at Clare, painted a much rosier outlook for their foreign research students.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson