John Edwards

John Edwards was born in 1946 in London, England. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and at Oxford. He specializes in translations of Augustan and Silver Age Latin poets, and of the Archaic Greek lyricists. John lives and writes on his farm on Vancouver Island, Canada where he raises Black Angus cattle and grows Quince trees. His other books include The Roman Cookery Of Apicius, and Roman Cookery Revised. He presently teaches Classical Philosophy and Plantagenet History at Vancouver Island University in the ElderCollege. He is also a poet, painter, and mountain runner, and tries to follow the teachings of Socrates in daily life.