Platform Monologues

Thomas George Tucker was an Anglo-Australian academic, classicist, professor at the University of Melbourne and author. Tucker was born in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England. In 1889 he published an important critical edition of the “Supplices” of Æschylus, in recognition of the merits of which work the degree of Doctor in Letters was conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge. He is a contributor to various literary and philological publications, and has collected into a volume entitled “Things Worth Thinking About” a series of lectures on literature and culture previously delivered in Melbourne.