Education
University of California, Berkeley. Harvard University.
philologist president university professor
University of California, Berkeley. Harvard University.
According to the Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists he was "one of the great Hellenists of his time". He is best known for his book The Arts of Orpheus (1941). In it he analysed the body of texts dealing with Orpheus and the Orphics.
He concluded that there was no exclusively "Orphic" system of belief in Ancient Greece.
Society for Classical Studies. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.