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George Converse Fiske was born at Roxbury Highlands, Massachusetts, the eldest son of George Alfred and Kate (Washburn) Fiske.
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The appearance of the two volumes of Marx s Lucilius in 1904 and 1905 and of Cichorius Untersuchungen zu Lucilius in 1908 have given us a new Lucilius. To appreciate the truth of this statement it is only necessary to examine the earlier editions of Lucian Mueller, 1872, and of Lachmann, 1876. Not only do we have a text which is the result of long and discriminating study, but we now have fuller information as to the social, political, and aesthetic environment of the Scipionic epoch than we have of any other period of Roman literary history until we reach the Ciceronian and Augustan age. These facts are of fundamental importance for all students of Horace ssatires, for they at once render necessary a complete revision of judgment in regard to such earlier studies of Lucilian and Horatian relationships as those of M. A. Herwig, Horatius quatenus recte de Lucilio iudicaverit, Halle, 1873; J. J. I ltgen, de Horatio, Lucilii aemulo, Montabauer, 1872; L. Triemel, Ueber Lucilius und seine Verhdltniss zu Horatius, Kreusn, 1877 (not accessible to me); V. Zawadzski, quatenus in satiris Horatius videatur imitatus esse Lucilium, Erlangen, 1881; R. Y. Tyrell, Horace and Lucilius, Hermathena 4, 355, and Tyrrel s Johns Hopkins Lecture on Horace published as chapter 6in his Latin Poetry, pp. 162-215. The student who peruses these studies to-day will still find much of value. Certain parallels he will reject, others he will accept, and above all he will concern himself not with the question of sporadic instances of verbal imitation arranged in the familiar parallel columns or of the reinterpretation of the thought qf individual passages by Horace, but with the much more fundamental question of the relation between the themes of Lucilian satires and those of Horace. Traces of this point of view are not wanting in these earlier studies. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher
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George Converse Fiske was born at Roxbury Highlands, Massachusetts, the eldest son of George Alfred and Kate (Washburn) Fiske.
The greater part of his youth was spent at Ashmont, Dorchester, Massachusetts, and from 1884 to 1890 he prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, of which his father was head master.
As a student at Harvard he displayed that ability, energy, and thoroughness which stamped indelibly his professional career, for he worked his way through college and was graduated in 1894 with honors.
He continued his training in the Harvard graduate school where he received the degrees of M. A. in 1897 and Ph. D. in 1900.
After a summer spent in England and northern Germany he taught Latin and Greek in Belmont and was instructor in Greek at Phillips Andover Academy until January 1, 1901, when he was appointed instructor in Latin at the University of Wisconsin.
He became an assistant professor in 1902, associate professor in 1907, and professor in 1924.
His chosen fields of research were ancient religion, satire, and rhetorical theory. The following articles bear witness to his scholarly investigations: "Notes on the Worship of the Roman Emperors in Spain” (Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. XI, 1900, pp. 101-39) ; "The Politics of the Patrician Claudii” (Ibid. , vol. XIII, 1902, pp. 1-59) ; “Lucilius, the Ars Poética of Horace, and Persius” (Ibid. , vol. XXIV, 1913, pp. 1-36) ; "Cicero’s Orator and Horace’s Ars Poética” (Ibid. , vol. XXXV, 1924, pp. 1-74, written in collaboration with Mary A. Grant) ; "Lucilius and Persius” (Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. XL, I9°9. PP- 121-50) ; “The Plain Style in the Scip- ionic Circle” (Classical Studies in Honor of Charles Forster Smith, 1919, Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, No. 3), pp. 62-105 and “Augustus and the Religion of Reconstruction” (Ibid. , 2 ser. , no. 15, 1922, pp. 111-33).
During the World War he acted as secretary of the university committee on war publications, and was the author of a number of articles, among which was one on the “Violation of the Neutrality of Belgium” (reprinted in the War Book of the University of Wisconsin').
At the time of his death he had just completed an article on “Cicero’s De Oratore and Horace’s Ars Poetica” and was engaged in writing a book on Greek and Roman rhetoric for the series Our Debt to Greece and Rome. There was much of the grandeur of the Roman Cato in Fiske’s absolute honesty, his uncompromising and lofty ideals, and his courage in the face of misfortune; but above all his friends and acquaintances experienced and appreciated his sympathy and help, ever at their command.
As senior editor of the Classical Bulletin his editorials were of real service and inspiration to the teachers of Latin in the state of Wisconsin.
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He was a frequent visitor at the high schools, and he took a keen interest and active part in the classical meetings and in the educational policies of the university, where he was an advocate of high standards and of sound methods of education.
He was married on December 26, 1908, to Augustine Louise Elleau at Newark, New Jersey