| Title: | William Dwight Whitney |
| Series: | Analecta Gorgiana 345 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| By Thomas Seymour |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60724-599-5 |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Publication Date: | 9/2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | Paperback, Black, 6 x 9 in |
| Pages: | 28 |
Thomas Day Seymour's Homeric Vocabulary is still a book on every Greek student's bookshelf, one of his many contributions to the study of Homeric language. In this essay, he gives a tribute to the life of William Dwight Whitney, an editor on Webster's Dictionary and a founding member of the American Philological Association. Principally a scholar of Sanskrit, he was a known expert on comparative linguistics. This piece was written shortly after this distinguished scholar's death and gives a touching portrait of a scholar's life. Of interest to those with an interest in Victorian biography and academia in America during the period following the Civil War, this piece also offers Classicists a valuable piece of their discipline's history.
Table of Contents
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY: I - WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY (page 5)
