Martin Classical Lectures
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The Martin Classical Lectures is a function of the Charles Beebe Martin Foundation established at Oberlin College
in Ohio
.
Charles Beebe Martin was a professor of Classics
and classical archaeology
at the College from 1880 to 1925. The foundation was set up to honor his memory.
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...
in Ohio
Ohio
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Charles Beebe Martin was a professor of Classics
Classics
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...
and classical archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
at the College from 1880 to 1925. The foundation was set up to honor his memory.
Works produced by the foundation
Lectures given at the foundation are collected and presented in volumes. Dates given are those of publication.Volumes published by Harvard University Press
- Volume 1, Louis E. Lord (1931)
- Volume 2 Aspects of Social Behavior in Ancient Rome, Tenney FrankTenney FrankTenney Frank was a prominent ancient historian and classical scholar.-Biography:...
(1932) - Volume 3 Attic Vase-painting, Charles SeltmanCharles SeltmanCharles Seltman PhD was an English art historian and writer.Seltman was born in Paddington, London, England in 1886 to Ernest Seltman and a devout Scottish mother. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and during World War I served in the Suffolk Regiment in France...
- Volume 4 Humanistic Value of Archaeology Rhys CarpenterRhys CarpenterRhys Carpenter was a classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College.Carpenter was born in Cotuit, Massachusetts. He took his B.A. in Classics at Columbia University in 1909. Carpenter won a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, studying at Balliol College. There he published his own poetry...
(1933) - Volume 5 Greek Ideals and Modern Life, Sir. R. W. LivingstoneRichard LivingstoneSir Richard Winn Livingstone was a British classical scholar, educationist, and academic administrator.He promoted the classical liberal arts....
(1935) - Volume 6 Five men; character studies from the Roman Empire, by Martin Percival (M. P.) Charlesworth (1936)
- Volume 7 Early Greek elegists, Cecil Maurice (C. M.) BowraMaurice BowraSir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.-Birth and boyhood:...
(1938) - Volume 8 The Roman art of war under the republic, Frank E. AdcockFrank AdcockFrank Ezra Adcock was a British classical historian of Greece and Rome, and worked as a cryptographer in both World Wars.He was born in Desford, Leicestershire, and died at Cambridge. He was educated at King’s College, Cambridge. He became a fellow and lecturer there in 1911, and held the Chair of...
(1940) - Volume 9 Epigraphica attica, Benjamin Dean MerittBenjamin Dean MerittBenjamin Dean Meritt was a classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece. His father was a professor of Greek and Latin at Trinity College ....
(1940) - Volume 10 Archaic Attic gravestones, Gisela M. A. RichterGisela RichterGisela Marie Augusta Richter , was a classical archaeologist and art historian.Gisela Richter was born in London, England; the daughter of Jean Paul and Louise Richter. Both of her parents and her sister, Irma, were historians of Italian Renaissance art...
(1944) - Volume 11 Greek personality in archaic sculpture, Georg Heinrich Karo (1948)
- Volume 12 Thucydides and the world war, Louis E. Lord (1945)
- Volume 13 Classical influences in Renaissance literature, Douglas BushDouglas BushDouglas Bush was a literary critic and literary historian. He taught for most of his life at Harvard University, where his students included many of the most prominent scholars, writers, and academics of several generations, including Walter Jackson Bate, Neil Rudenstine, Paul Auster and Rabbi...
(1952) - Volume 14 Pindar and Aeschylus, John Huston Finley (1955)
- Volume 15 Classics and Renaissance thought, Paul Oskar KristellerPaul Oskar KristellerPaul Oskar Kristeller was an important scholar of Renaissance humanism. He was awarded the Haskins Medal in 1992. He was last active as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York, where he mentored both Irving Louis Horowitz and A...
(1955) and as Renaissance thought, the classic, scholastic and humanist strains (1961) - Volume 16 Ancient book illumination, Kurt WeitzmannKurt WeitzmannKurt Weitzmann was born in Klein Almerode Germany on May 7, 1904 and died in Princeton, New Jersey on June 7, 1993. He was a highly influential art historian who studied Byzantine and medieval art. He attended the universities of Münster, Würzburg and Vienna before moving to Princeton in 1935, due...
(1959) - Volume 17 Boundaries of Dionysus; Athenian foundations for the theory of tragedy, Alfred Cary Schlesinger (1963)
- Volume 18 Society and civilization in Greece and Rome, Victor EhrenbergVictor Ehrenberg (historian)Victor Ehrenberg was a German historian. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg.He was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer ....
(1964) - Volume 19 Aristophanes and the comic hero, Cedric H. Whitman (1964)
- Volume 20 Origin and early form of Greek tragedy, Gerald ElseGerald ElseGerald Frank Else was born in 1908 at Redfield, SD and died in 1982). Distinguished American classicist, he was professor of Greek and Latin at University of Michigan and University of Iowa.-Biography:...
(1965) - Volume 21 The meaning of Stoicism, Ludwig EdelsteinLudwig EdelsteinLudwig Edelstein was a classical scholar and historian of medicine. He left Germany in 1933, and took up an appointment at Johns Hopkins University in 1934...
(1966) - Volume 22 Rubens and the classical tradition, Wolfgang Stechow (1968)
- Volume 23 The Athenian aristocracy, 399 to 31 B.C., Paul Lachlan MacKendrickPaul MacKendrickPaul Lachlan MacKendrick was an American classicist, author and teacher.He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, but most of his productive years had been lived in Madison, Wisconsin....
(1969) - Volume 24 Thucydides on the nature of power, A. G. (Arthur Geoffrey) Woodhead (1970)
- Volume 25 Isis among the Greeks and Romans, Friedrich SolmsenFriedrich SolmsenFriedrich W. Solmsen was a philologist and professor of classical studies. His edition of Hesiod is considered definitive. He published nearly 150 books, monographs, scholarly articles, and reviews from the 1930s through the 1980s. Solmsen's work is characterized by a prevailing interest in the...
(1979) - Volume 26 Tragedy and civilization : an interpretation of Sophocles, Charles Segal (1981)
- Volume 27 Aristotle and the Renaissance, Charles B. Schmitt (1983)
- Volume 28 Herodotean narrative and discourse, Mabel LangMabel LangMabel Louise Lang was an American archaeologist and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenaean culture. She served on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College until 1991 and was professor emerita there until her death...
(1984) - Volume 29 The art of Bacchylides, Anne Pippin Burnett (1985)
- Volume 30 Homer and the Nibelungenlied : comparative studies in epic style Bernard Fenik (1986)
Volumes published by Princeton University Press
- Man in the middle voice: name and narration in the Odyssey, John Peradotto (1990)