Arthur Way was born at
Dorking,
England. to the Rev. William Way and his wife Matilda,
née Francis. His translations in
Miller's Australian Literature includes the
Odyssey; the
Iliad; works of
Euripides,
Aeschylus, and
Sophocles; the
Epodes of
Horace;
Vergil's
Georgics; the
Nibelungenlied; the
Chanson de Roland; works of
Theocritus,
Bion, and
Moschus; the
Pauline epistles and the
Epistle to the Hebrews; works of
Aristophanes,
Hesiod,
Lucretius, and others. He also wrote
Homer (1913),
Greek through English (1926), and
Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens (1929). Way had been president of the
Melbourne Shakespeare Society and a councillor of the
Royal Society of Victoria. Way died at
Ventnor,
Isle of Wight, on 25 September 1930. ==References==