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The stage in the Greek theatre according to the extant dramas.
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Classical Philology, Vol. 2: January October, 1907 (Classic Reprint)
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We may pass now to details and assemble the evidence by which we fix the Sites of the individual plays. We shall consider first all plays whose action is supposed to take place at Athens.
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Classical Philology, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Research in the Languages, Literatures, History, and Life of Classical Antiquity; January-October, 1906 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Classical Philology, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Research in the Languages, Literatures, History, and Life of Classical Antiquity; January-October, 1906
Interest naturally centers in the one hundred and seventy that furnish the text of the plays. I give a few statistics.
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From Homer to Theocritus: A Manual of Greek Literature (Classic Reprint)
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This volume aims to present a concise but complete survey of the Greek literature of the classical period, extended so as to include the two branches of poetry, the New Comedy and the Idyll, which were brought to perfection after the overthrow of Greek liberty by Alex ander. I have tried, so far as space would permit, to place in their proper setting each branch of literature and each author, keeping constantly in mind the course of development of the literature as a whole. Selections from representative English translations are quoted in connection with the principal authors, more extensively for the poets than for the writers of prose. It is hoped that this feature of the book will be found acceptable, both to the general reader who has not the time, even if he has the training and equipment, for comprehen sive readings in the Greek texts, and to the average student whose attainments in Greek are not sufliciently extensive to furnish an adequate background for the most profitable study of the ordinary manuals. In the choice of selections I have been guided mainly by my own judgment of the merits of existing translations, so taras they were known or accessible to me; but the determining consideration in many instances has been the accessibility of a translation to the general public.
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Four Plays of Menander: The Hero, Epitrepontes, Periceiromene and Samia; Edited With Introductions, Explanatory Notes, Critical Appendix, and Bibliography (Classic Reprint)
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Imperial Public Library of St. Petersburg, have been of assistance in constituting the text. I have ventured to depend upon these reproductions in a few instances, especially in the mutilated end of the second Leipzig fragment, and to depart from the readings favored by the scholars who have examined the manuscripts directly. The lack of a photographic reproduction of the Cairo manuscript is a serious handicap to every editor and has greatly retarded the work of reconstructing the text. Not only are passages still uncertain which would in all probability have been finally restored, but the wavering and often conflicting testimony of the scholars who have examined the papyrus has led to an unnecessary and unfortunate multiplication of conjectural restorations. And yet, with our pres ent imperfect knowledge of this manuscript, many proposed restorw tions which will ultimately be discarded have at present a provisional standing in the history of the text and will assist both in the final decipherment of doubtful verses and in the interpretation of hope lessly defective passages. I have therefore thought it desirable to give in the Critical Appendix a full report of the divergent or mutually complementary readings of Lefebvre, Korte, and di Ricci, and also to record rather fully the more notable restorations that have been suggested. It is hoped that the Critical Appendix, in spite of its bulk, will be found useful as a record of the scholarly labor which has been bestowed upon this manuscript since its dis covery. It should be added, however, that no such record can do full justice to the contributions of the first editor, M. Lefebvre.
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Edward Capps, professor classicist, taught at Illinois College, at Yale, and at the University of Chicago and Princeton.
Background
Edward Capps was born on December 21, 1866 in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States; the third son and the third of nine children of Stephen Reid Capps and Rhoda Smith (Tomlin) Capps. The family was Methodist. His father, an 1857 graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, was a prominent and philanthropic manufacturer, an excellent Greek student, and trustee of the Illinois School for the Deaf and of Illinois Women's College. He was a descendant of William Capps, who emigrated from England in 1610 and settled in Virginia. His mother's forebears had come from England and Wales before the Revolution and settled in New Jersey, later moving to Winchester, Kentucky. By about 1837 his parents' families had settled in Jacksonville. One of Capps's brothers, Stephen Reid Capps, became a geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey; another, Dr. Joseph Almarin Capps, became professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago; and a sister, Rhoda Jeanette, married Charles H. Rammelkamp, later president of Illinois College.
Education
Capps attended Whipple Academy in Jacksonville before entering Illinois College, from which he graduated in 1887.
Career
Edward B. Clapp, later (1890 - 1892) Capps's colleague at Yale, secured him for classics. He also long remembered the Latin instruction of Harold W. Johnston. The young alumnus was appointed instructor in classics at Jacksonville in 1887 but the next year went on at Clapp's urging to graduate work at Yale, where he was appointed tutor in Latin (1890 - 1892). Unlike most young classicists of the day, he preferred a domestic degree to a German one. His dissertation, "The Stage in the Greek Theatre" (Yale, 1891), published in Transactions of the American Philological Association, 22 (1891), 5-80, reflected Clapp's interests in tragedy and argued expertly from the texts against the existence of a raised stage in classical Greece. His dissertation determined his subsequent scholarly investigations. At Yale, where he studied with Tracy Peck and Thomas Day Seymour, he met William Rainey Harper. Harper took him to the University of Chicago at its founding in 1892, where he became assistant professor of Greek language and literature in the department headed by Paul Shorey. In 1893-1894 he was a student at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 1903-1904 he heard Carl Robert at Halle and visited the universities at Berlin and Munich. Capps became editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Decennial Publications (29 vols. ) in 1902 and the first managing editor of Classical Philology in 1906. In 1901 he published an elementary history of Greek literature, From Homer to Theocritus. This was the period of his most enduring work in Greek drama. He published articles on "Vitruvius and the Greek Stage, " University of Chicago Studies in Classical Philology (1893) and "The Introduction of Comedy into the City Dionysia, " University of Chicago Decennial Publications (1903). He directed three famous dissertations on aspects of Greek acting by Kelley Rees, F. W. Dignan, and J. B. O'Connor. In 1903 he lectured on the Greek theater at Harvard. In 1907, after Harper's death, he sued the University of Chicago over a question of salary. The case was notorious and was decided in Capps's favor by the Supreme Court of Illinois. Capps left Chicago that year for Princeton, where he was professor of Greek until his retirement in 1936. He arrived during the struggle between Woodrow Wilson and Dean Andrew Fleming West over the question of the location of the new graduate school. In the crucial decision of his life, Capps astutely chose to support Wilson against his classical colleague West. He became a lifelong Democrat in a Republican family and won the enduring loyalty of Wilson.
In 1910 he published a text and commentary to four fragmentary plays of Menander. The exegesis of certain passages has remained of permanent value.
The appointment signaled his international reputation as scholar and editor but resulted in his devoting the best years of his scholarly life to improving the work of others. He often regretted the post, and the year 1914 marks the end of his creative scholarly period and the transition to administration. In 1918 Wilson supported Capps's candidacy as American Red Cross commissioner to Greece, which he held (1918 - 1919) with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1920-1921 he served as Wilson's envoy extraordinary and ambassador plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro. He met men like Eleutherios Venizelos, the prime minister, who would ease his later work in Greece. He worked for the founding of Athens College, an American-Greek boys' school, which until 1967 boasted an alumnus in every Greek cabinet.
His most controversial act was firing B. H. Hill, for twenty years director of the school, a brilliant field archaeologist who was unable and unwilling to publish the results of his excavations. The decision, painful and necessary, alienated the archaeologist Carl Blegen, Hill's friend, and resulted in Blegen's excavating Troy and in Pylos not being a school dig. Capps fostered select careers--Oscar Broneer, Rhys Carpenter, B. D. Meritt, T. Leslie Shear--and demanded loyalty. He secured Princetonian hegemony over the school for some fifty years. He possessed the energy often found in many short men and had a rare gift for imparting enthusiasm. He chose friends astutely. A stubborn fighter for what he thought right, he was justly called "the second founder of the school. " He was an impeccable scholar who deserted scholarship for successful administration.
Capps died in Princeton after a long illness, and his ashes were interred in the Diamond Grove Cemetery in Jacksonville.
Achievements
He served as an editor of the Loeb Classical Library, president of the American Philological Association and was a founder of the American Association of University Professors and chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Capps was instrumental in the founding of Athens College.
He received honorary degrees from Illinois College (LL. D. 1911), Oberlin College (Litt. D. 1923), Harvard (L. H. D. 1924), the University of Michigan (Litt. D. 1931), the University of Athens (LL. D. 1937), and Oxford (Litt. D. 1946); and was thrice decorated by the Greek government.
He was a lifelong Democrat in a Republican family.
Membership
In 1914 Capps was appointed an American editor of the Loeb Classical Library and was elected president of the American Philological Association.
In 1918 Capps was elected chairman of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and served from December 1, 1919, to May 13, 1939.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"I would trust his judgment most of the time and his intentions always. " (Woodrow Wilson)
Connections
Capps married Grace Alexander of Greenville, Illinois, on July 20, 1892. She died at Princeton in 1937. They had four children, Priscilla, Edward, Jr. , Alexander, and Rhoda.
