(Excerpt from Remnants of Early Latin
N undertaking this ...)
Excerpt from Remnants of Early Latin
N undertaking this little book I proposed to myself to get together in small compass, and in a convenient shape for read ing and reference, such of the remains of the earliest Latin - pri marily inscriptions - as are most important as monuments of the language, with enough explanation to make them fairly intel ligible. The need of such a collection had been felt, I found, by others as well as myself, and this need had been only partly met by Wordsworth's Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin (london, a work which, with all its merits, is cumber some, ill arranged for reference, and too expensive to be widely circulated. The present book is designed first of all for the more advanced of our college students, but I venture to hope that maturer Scholars may find it useful as a convenient handbook, since it comprises within a few pages matter somewhat scattered and not very generally accessible.
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The Medea of Euripides: With Notes and an Introduction (Ancient Greek Edition)
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Frederic de Forest Allen was an American scholar. He was a professor of Classical Philology at Harvard University.
Background
Frederic de Forest Allen was born on May 25, 1844 at Oberlin, Ohio, United States, of old New England stock. The family can be traced from Samuel Allen, who settled in Braintree, Massachussets, about 1629, and whose daughter Sarah married Josiah, the son of Miles Standish. Frederic's father, George Nelson Allen, set out for Ohio in 1832 under the influence of his pastor, Lyman Beecher. He was taken ill and kindly cared for at Hudson, Ohio, where the Western Reserve College had been recently established, and there he studied at the preparatory school and the college for five years, at the end of which he went to Oberlin, where he was graduated in 1838. Three years later he married Mary Rudd, who had just received the degree of bachelor of arts. She and two classmates were the first women to receive that degree at Oberlin and were probably the first women in the world to receive the degree in course. Her father, Hezekiah Rudd, is said to have conducted a school for boys at Stratford, Connecticut. Her mother, Maria De Forest Rudd, was descended from a French family which had been among the first settlers of Harlem, New York. She was a woman of marked scholarly tastes and great strength of mind and character. In the year of his marriage, George N. Allen was appointed instructor in Oberlin College, where he taught music and natural science until 1871. Frederic Allen was, therefore, bred in an atmosphere of intellectual culture amid the rural and intensely religious surroundings of the small college and village of the Oberlin of that time.
Education
Allen graduated from the Oberlin College in 1863, at nineteen years of age. In his undergraduate days he showed no strong inclination for classical studies, but read widely in the best French literature.
He obtained his Ph. D. in 1870 from the University of Leipzig, with a dissertation De Dialecto Locrensium, which gives clear signs of his ability as a philological investigator.
Career
Allen began teaching school while still a student in one or more of the long winter vacations, on one occasion in the small village of Brecksville, near Cleveland. After his graduation he taught for about two years in a school at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and for a few months at the Blind Asylum in St. Louis. During this time he turned eagerly to the study of the classics, and in 1866 was appointed professor of Greek and Latin at the University of East Tennessee, at Knoxville.
In 1868 he obtained leave of absence and went to Leipzig to study under Georg Curtius. Here he remained two years, taking active part in the work of Prof. Curtius's Grammatische Gesellschaft and winning the respect of the scholars of the University. Returning to Knoxville, Allen resumed his former position, but in 1873 he was called to Harvard University as tutor in Greek. The next year he was called to the newly founded University of Cincinnati. Here, although chiefly occupied with the work of his department, he found time to prepare his excellent edition of the Medea of Euripides, a treatise on the meter of Homer, and his Remnants of Early Latin, a small but important book.
In 1879 he accepted a call to the chair of Greek in Yale University; but he remained there only one year, for in 1880 he was called to be professor of classical philology at Harvard, a position which gave him relatively few hours of classroom teaching, and most of those with graduate students. Here he was in his element and could bring to bear upon his daily work his wide and profound knowledge of the ancient languages, and of the literature, life, and thought of the Greeks and Romans. The academic year 1885-1886 he spent in Greece as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; but his health was so poor that he had to relinquish his plans for excursions in the country.
While riding a bicycle from Cambridge toward Portsmouth, August 4, 1897, he was stricken with apoplexy and died without recovering consciousness.
Allen's published work is for the most part in the form of articles in periodicals and encyclopedias. His only books are Remnants of Early Latin (1880); a revision, with many changes and additions, of Hadley's Greek Grammar (1884); and editions of the Medea of Euripides (1876) and the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus (1891). In the last the notes and introduction are translated from the German of N. Wecklein. Of his numerous articles perhaps the most important is "On Greek Versification in Inscriptions, " in the Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. At the time of his death he had been working for some years on an edition of the scholia of Plato.
Achievements
Allen was best known as a professor of the Classical Philology and as the author of a work on Greek versification. He was also one of the oldest members in point of service of the Harvard. He was a member of the Editorial Committee and contributed some of the most valuable papers that have appeared in its pages.
Allen also composed the music for the Phormio of Terence and for a pantomime and an operetta of his friend Professor James B. Greenough.
Allen was never robust, for he suffered severely at various times from sciatica and asthma, and during the latter part of his life from hay-fever, and, worst of all, from violent sick-headaches. To escape from hay-fever he used to go to the White Mountains, where he tramped and climbed among the heights for several weeks of each summer.
Interests
Allen's chief recreation was music.
Connections
On December 26, 1878, Allen married Emmeline Laighton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, of a well-known family of that state. She was a charming woman, with great love of music. Their eldest daughter died at Athens.
