{{Short description|English scholar (1847–1930)}} {{For|the politician|Arthur Edwin Way}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Arthur Sanders Way | image = Arthur Sanders Way (1847–1930).jpg | birth_date = 13 February 1847 | death_date = {{death date and age|1930|09|25|1847|02|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dorking, Surrey, England | death_place = Ventnor, Isle of Wight | nationality = English | occupation = Classical scholar, headmaster | notableworks = ''Homer''<br />''Greek through English''<br />''Sons of the Violet-Crowned, a Tale of Ancient Athens''}} '''Arthur Sanders Way''' (13 February 1847 &ndash; 25 September 1930), was a classical scholar, translator and headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia. ==Career== Arthur Way was born at Dorking, England. to the Rev. William Way and his wife Matilda, ''née'' Francis.<ref name=adb> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=Gellie|first=G. H. |year=1976 |volume=6 |id2=way-arthur-sanders-4816 |pp=367-368 |title=Way, Arthur Sanders (1847 - 1930) |accessdate=31 December 2012}} </ref>

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.<ref name=adb/> Way died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 25 September 1930.

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==Sources== *{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Arthur Sanders|Last=Way|shortlink=0-dict-biogWa.html#way1}} *{{NIE|title=Arthur Way}}

==External links== *{{commonscat-inline}} *{{wikisource author-inline|Arthur Sanders Way}} * {{Gutenberg author | id=340}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Arthur Sanders Way}} * {{Librivox author |id=11470}}

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