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In order to get a c...)
Excerpt from The Acropolis of Athens
In order to get a connected general survey Of the Acropolis as it appeared in ancient days, and to enable the reader to refer readily to the statements therein contained, I have included in Appendix I. The description given by the old traveller Pausanias. The translation of his description is taken, by permission, from the monumental work of Professor J. G. Frazer, to whom I am deeply indebted not only for this courtesy, but also for the valuable material freely borrowed from the work to which reference has been made.
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To understand the subsequent history and growth of Athens, it is necessary first to take into view the natural advantages of its position. Few cities, if any, can boast a more beautiful situation.
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The oration of Demosthenes on The crown. With extracts from the oration of Aeschines against Ctesiphon, and explanatory notes
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Martin Luther D'Ooge was a Dutch-born American classics scholar. He was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.
Background
Martin Luther D'Ooge was born on July 17, 1839 at Zonnemaire in the Netherlands. His father, Leonard D'Ooge, was of Huguenot extraction and his mother, Johanna Quintus D'Ooge, came of a Dutch family whose men had for several generations followed the teaching profession. His brother, Prof. Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, was the well-known Latinist.
On September 28, 1847 at 8 years of age, Martin arrived in America with his parents through the port of New York. By 1850 the D'Ooge family was residing at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Leonard D'Ooge was a grocery dealer and later a real estate broker.
Education
D'Ooge prepared for college in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1862 he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1862. After a brief period, he entered Union Theological Seminary, by which he was awarded a Master's degree in 1865. Later Martin studied abroad, at Berlin and the University of Leipzig, and received his Ph. D. from the latter in 1872.
The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Michigan in 1889, and the degree of Doctor of Letters by Rutgers College in 1901.
Career
D'Ooge became principal of the Ann Arbor High School in 1862, resigning that position in 1865 to continue his education. While still a student at the Union Theological Seminary he accepted in 1867 a call to the University of Michigan as assistant professor of ancient languages. Except for the year 1886-87, when he was on leave as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and a semester in 1905, when he attended as delegate the International Archeological Congress which met in Greece, he taught continuously at the University of Michigan until his retirement in 1912. In addition to the heavy teaching schedule which he always carried, he served as dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 1889 to 1897.
His university duties, to which he devoted himself with energy and enthusiastic zeal, left him little time for writing. Besides contributing occasional articles to the Nation and various classical journals, he edited The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown in 1875, and the Antigone of Sophocles in 1884. His chief work, however, upon which he spent much study and travel, is the scholarly volume The Acropolis of Athens (1908). After his retirement he occupied himself with European travel, which always called him insistently, and the translation of the Arithmetic of Nicomachus of Gerasa. This was published by his friends and colleagues, Professors Robbins and Karpinski, in 1926.
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Religion
Though early diverted from his young life's aim in the Church, he never wavered in his religious faith nor in his belief in the Church as a Divine institution. In 1878 he was formally ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church and continued to preach occasionally in the pulpits of Ann Arbor and neighboring cities. Only the last summer he occupied the pulpit of the Methodist Church in this city of a Sunday morning in the absence of the pastor. He was an excellent speaker, and though foreign born, had command of a fine English style. He would doubtless have become a preacher of note had not his scholarly ambitions and tastes detained him in the quieter walks of Academic life.
Membership
D'Ooge became a member of the American Philological Association in 1869, as well as its president in 1883 - 84.
Personality
The advanced students, to whom he gave his time freely, found him exacting in his standards; he insisted on wide reading and complete mastery of subject matter. While the orators, Homer, and Sophocles appealed to him most strongly, he was keenly interested in every phase of ancient life and thought. In his classroom his pupils felt the great personal charm, vivacity, and unfailing friendliness which made him a popular and well-loved figure in university life. To them, as to his colleagues, his home was always open in the gracious hospitality with which he and Mrs. D'Ooge delighted to welcome friends of literary and artistic tastes.
The honors which came to him he received with his usual modesty as tributes to his department rather than to himself.
Connections
Martin was married by his to-be father-in-law to Mary Worcester, youngest child of Isaac Redington Worcester and Mary Sophia Sargent, on July 31, 1873.