Thomas Day Seymour
Thomas Day Seymour | |
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Born | |
Died | December 31, 1907 | (aged 59)
Alma mater | Western Reserve College |
Occupation | Classics scholar |
Employer(s) | Western Reserve College Yale University |
Spouse | Sarah Melissa Hitchcock |
Children | Elizabeth Day Clara Hitchcock Charles Seymour |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Homeric poetry |
Thomas Day Seymour (April 1, 1848 – December 31, 1907).
Life
Born in
Glasgow University in 1901, and from Harvard University in 1906.[1] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900 and the American Philosophical Society in 1906.[4][5]
After studying in
From 1887 to 1901 Seymour was chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,[2] and was president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903.[3] He was one of the American editors of the Classical Review.[1][6]
He was the father of Yale President Charles Seymour, and the great-nephew of Yale President Jeremiah Day.
He married Sarah Melissa Hitchcock (b. Sep. 27, 1846) of
Peter Hitchcock.[2] They had three children; Elizabeth Day Seymour (b. Jan 21, 1876) was his eldest daughter, and she married John Angel (sculptor) in 1942.[7] Clara Hitchcock Seymour was born on March 28, 1880, and his youngest child Charles Seymour was born on Jan. 1, 1885.[2]
Publications
Other than his Selected Odes of Pindar (1882),[8] Seymour's published work was largely confined to the study of the Homeric poems,[3] viz:
- "On the Date of the Prometheus of Aeschylus" (1879)[9]
- An Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer (1885)[10]
- Homer's Iliad, i.-iv. (1887–1890)
- Homeric Vocabulary (1889)[11]
- "Carroll Cutler" (1894)[12]
- Introduction and Vocabulary to School Odyssey (1897)
- The College Series of Greek Authors, editor with Lewis R Packard and John W White.
- Plato: Apology of Socrates and Crito (1885) Ginn & Co.[13]
- "The First Twenty Years of the School At Athens" (1902)[14]
- Life in the Homeric Age (1907)[15][16]
References
- ^ . Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f The Family of the Rev. Jeremiah Day of New Preston to January 1, 1900: A Genealogical Appendix to The Chronicles of the Day Family (1900) The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn.
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Seymour, Thomas Day". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 755. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Thomas Day Seymour". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ Eight extracts from The Classical Review (March, 1899 – October, 1901) David Nutt, London; Ginn & Co., Boston
- ^ "John Angel". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database. 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
- ^ Selected Odes of Pindar: With Notes and an Introduction (1882) Ginn, Heath & Company, Boston
- ^ "On the Date of the Prometheus of Aeschylus" (1879) Transactions of American Philological Society
- ^ An Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer (1885) Ginn & Co., Boston
- ^ A Concise Vocabulary to the First Six Books of Homer's Iliad (1889) Ginn & Co., Boston (Google eBook)
- ^ "Address in Memory of Rev. Carroll Cutler, D. D., Fourth President of Adelbert College of Western Reserve University" (1894)
- ^ Plato Apology of Socrates and Crito (1885) Ginn & Co.
- ^ "Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens" Vol.5 (1902) Archaeological Society of America
- ^ Life in the Homeric Age (1908) The Macmillan Company, New York (Google eBook)
- ^ "Review of Life in the Homeric Age by Thomas Day Seymour". The Athenaeum (4174): 510–511. October 26, 1907.
External links
- Seymour family papers (MS 440). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [1]
- Thomas Day Seymour at Find a Grave
- Thomas Day Seymour at the Database of Classical Scholars
- Works by Thomas Day Seymour at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Day Seymour at Internet Archive