The Martin Classical Lectures is a function of the Charles Beebe Martin Foundation established at

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

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. Charles Beebe Martin was a professor of

Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and classical

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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 Frank Tenney Frank (May 19, 1876 – April 3, 1939) was a prominent American ancient historian and classical scholar. He studied many aspects of Ancient Rome, for instance its economy, imperialism, demographics and epigraphy. Biography Tenney Frank earn ...

(1932) *Volume 3 ''Attic Vase-painting'',

Charles Seltman Charles Theodore Seltman PhD (4 August 1886 – 28 June 1957) was an English art historian and writer particularly in the area of numismatics. Charles Seltman was born in Paddington, London, England on 4 August 1886 to Ernest John Seltman and B ...

(1933) *Volume 4 ''Humanistic Value of Archaeology''

Rhys Carpenter Rhys Carpenter (August 5, 1889 – January 2, 1980) was an American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College. Carpenter was unconventional as a scholar. He analyzed Greek art from the standpoint of artistic production and b ...

(1933) *Volume 5 ''Greek Ideals and Modern Life'', Sir. R. W. Livingstone (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.) Bowra (1938) *Volume 8 ''The Roman art of war under the republic'', Frank E. Adcock (1940) *Volume 9 ''Epigraphica attica'',

Benjamin Dean Meritt Benjamin Dean Meritt (March 31, 1899 in Durham, North Carolina – July 7, 1989 in Austin, Texas) was a classical scholar, professor and epigraphist of ancient Greece. His father was a professor of Greek and Latin at Trinity College (later Duke Uni ...

(1940) *Volume 10 ''Archaic Attic gravestones'', Gisela M. A. Richter (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 Bush John Nash Douglas Bush (1896–1983) 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 generation ...

(1952) *Volume 14 ''Pindar and Aeschylus'', John Huston Finley (1955) *Volume 15 ''Classics and Renaissance thought'',

Paul Oskar Kristeller Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905 in Berlin – June 7, 1999 in New York, United States) 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 Colum ...

(1955) and as ''Renaissance thought, the classic, scholastic and humanist strains'' (1961) *Volume 16 ''Ancient book illumination'',

Kurt Weitzmann Kurt Weitzmann (March 7, 1904, Kleinalmerode (Witzenhausen Witzenhausen is a small town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in northeastern Hesse, Germany. It was granted town rights in 1225, and until 1974, it was a district seat. The University of ...

(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 Ehrenberg (1964) *Volume 19 ''Aristophanes and the comic hero'', Cedric H. Whitman (1964) *Volume 20 ''Origin and early form of Greek tragedy'',

Gerald Else Gerald Frank Else (July 1, 1908 – 6 September 1982) was a distinguished American classicist. He was professor of Greek and Latin at University of Michigan and University of Iowa. Else is substantially credited with the refinement of Aristotelia ...

(1965) *Volume 21 ''The meaning of Stoicism'',

Ludwig Edelstein Ludwig Edelstein (23 April 1902 – 16 August 1965) was a classical scholar and historian of medicine. Personal life and career Edelstein was born in Berlin, Germany, to Isidor and Mathilde Adler Edelstein. He attended the University of Berlin fro ...

(1966) *Volume 22 ''Rubens and the classical tradition'', Wolfgang Stechow (1968) *Volume 23 ''The Athenian aristocracy, 399 to 31 B.C.'', Paul Lachlan MacKendrick (1969) *Volume 24 ''Thucydides on the nature of power'', A. G. (Arthur Geoffrey) Woodhead (1970) *Volume 25 ''Isis among the Greeks and Romans'',

Friedrich Solmsen Friedrich W. Solmsen (February 4, 1904 – January 30, 1989) was a philologist and professor of classical studies. He published nearly 150 books, monographs, scholarly articles, and reviews from the 1930s through the 1980s. Solmsen's work is chara ...

(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 Lang Mabel Louise Lang (November 12, 1917 – July 21, 2010) was an American archaeologist and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenaean culture. Biography Lang took her first degree at Cornell University in 1939 and was awarded her PhD at Bryn Ma ...

(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)

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Works produced by the foundation

Volumes published by Harvard University Press

Volumes published by Princeton University Press

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