biography
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Smyth, Herbert Weir
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1938)
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| biography:
| Classicist, born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He spent most of his teaching career (1901–25) at Harvard, where he had earned his BA in 1876. His many publications include The Ionic Dialect (1894), Greek Grammar (1920), his University of California Sather lectures, Aeschylean Tragedy (1924), and the Loeb edition of the plays of Aeschylus (1922). After his death, his personal library became the basis of Harvard's classics collection, the Smyth, housed in the Widener Library. |
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