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The Religious Life of Ancient Rome: A Study in the Development of Religious Consciousness From the Foundation of the City, Until the Death of Gregory the Great (Classic Reprint)
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Jesse Benedict Carter was a prominent American classicist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Background
Jesse Benedict Carter was born on June 16, 1872 in New York City, New York, United States; of Scotch descent, the son of a publisher, Peter Carter, and of his wife Mary Louise Benedict. Books and studies formed a natural part of the daily life of the home in which he was brought up.
Education
In 1899 Jesse entered New York University, but after one year went to Princeton, where he was graduated at the head of his class in 1893. In college his brilliancy and mental power caused him to surpass his classmates in all studies, and he was also an assiduous reader, especially in the fields of modern letters and the fine arts. After his graduation he studied for two years at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Gottingen, for the most part in the field of the classics.
Career
Carter was instructor in Latin at Princeton for two years, 1895-97, when he returned to Germany, where he obtained, in 1898, the degree of Ph. D. at Halle. He was assistant professor of Latin at Princeton, 1898-1902, and in 1900 was lecturer on Roman religion in the summer school of the University of Wisconsin. In 1902 year he was promoted to the rank of professor, a position which he held until 1907, though from 1904 to 1907 he was on leave of absence from Princeton and served as annual professor in the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. In 1907 he was chosen director of the School, and when, in 1911, it became a part of the American Academy in Rome, he remained as director of the Classical School of the Academy. In 1913 he was chosen director of the Academy. As director of the American Academy in Rome Carter displayed great executive and administrative ability. The Academy had recently been enlarged in scope and now included the School of Classical Studies as well as the School of Fine Arts. It was the director's task to further and guide the intellectual and material growth of the institution. During Carter's directorship the Academy was settled in permanent and admirable buildings, and its position as an important institution became generally recognized. The Director's own importance as a scholar also received wide recognition. He was invited to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston, and in 1916 he delivered, by invitation of the French Minister of Public Instruction, a course of lectures at the Sorbonne and at other French universities on "The Growth of Humanism in the United States. " During the World War, Carter and other officers of the Academy were actively engaged in the work of Italian war relief.
His published writings treat for the most part topics in his chosen field, Roman religion. He was a regular collaborator in Roscher's Ausfuhrliches Lexikon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie and in Hastings's Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics and contributed to various periodicals. His separate publications were: De Deorum Cognominibus (1898), The Roman Elegiac Poets (1900), Epitheta Deorum (1902), Virgil's Aeneid (1903), The Religion of Numa (1906), The Religious Life of Ancient Rome (1911), and a translation of Huelsen's Roman Forum (1906).
He died at Cervignano, Italy, from heart trouble aggravated by exposure to the heat, as he was on his way to the Italian front with a commission sent by the American Red Cross.
Carter's scholarship was focused on Roman religion and topography. He collaborated with Christian Hülsen on topographical studies of the Forum Romanum and produced his own work on the scholarship of Roman religion.
Personality
Carter was of medium height and rather rotund in face and figure. His exuberant vitality showed itself in mannerisms which were not always pleasing to Americans, but which added to his influence with the Italians among whom his later years were passed. He liked to be well dressed in the latest style. He was of a jovial and convivial disposition and enjoyed the good things of life whether of material or intellectual nature.
Connections
On January 22, 1902, he married Kate Benedict Freeman of New York.