John V. Luce

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birth_date = 1920
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fields = Classical studies
workplaces = Trinity College, Dublin
alma_mater = Trinity College
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known_for = Atlantis theories
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John Victor Luce (1920 – ) is an Irish classicist, former professor and emeritus Fellow of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. He was also the College Orator between 1971 and 2005.

Luce entered Trinity in 1938 to read Classics, and was elected a Foundation Scholar in his first year, a highly unusual achievement. He took a double Moderatorship in Classics and Philosophy and was awarded Gold Medals for both subjects. He was Auditor of the College Classical Society in 1942-43. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1948 and served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Oratory until 1989.

Partial bibliography

*"The End of Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend", London 1969
*"The Quest for Ulysses" (with William Bedell Stanford), London 1974
*"Homer and the Heroic Age", London 1975
*"Trinity College Dublin: The First 400 Years", Dublin 1991
*"An Introduction to Greek Philosophy", London 1992
*"Orationes Dublinienses Selectae (1971-1990)", Dublin 1991
*"Celebrating Homer's Landscapes: Troy and Ithaca Revisited", New Haven 1999
*"Orationes Dublinienses Selectae II (1990-2002)", Dublin 2004