Grant Showerman

Grant Showerman
Born(1870-01-09)January 9, 1870
Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedNovember 13, 1935(1935-11-13) (aged 65)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin
SpouseZilpha Marie Vernon
Parent(s)Hiram Showerman and Ellen Augusta Parker
RelativesLuther Parker (grandfather)

Grant Showerman Ph.D. (January 9, 1870 – November 13, 1935) was an American classical scholar.

Career overview

Grant Showerman was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1870.[1] He was educated at Carroll College and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked as instructor in Latin (1900–1909), and from 1909 until his death as professor of classics.[2] Showerman House in Kronshage Hall is named after him.

Works

  • With the Professor, Henry Holt and Company, 1910.
  • Horace and His Influence, The Plimpton Press, 1922.
  • Eternal Rome, 2 Vol., Yale University Press, 1924.
  • Rome and the Romans; A Survey and Interpretation, The Macmillan Company, 1931.
  • Monuments and Men of Ancient Rome, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935.

Selected articles

  • "Was Attis at Rome under the Republic?," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXXI, 1900.
  • "Cicero's Appreciation of Greek Art," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXXIV, 1903.
  • "The American College Course," Educational Review, September 1903.
  • "Eastern Education Thru Western Eyes," Educational Review, Vol. XXX, December 1905.
  • "A Professorial Meditation," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XL, July/December 1906.
  • "Mud and Nails," Educational Review, Vol. XXXV, May 1908.
  • "College Professors Exposed," Educational Review, Vol. XXXVI, June/December 1908.
  • "The Ancient Religions in Universal History," American Journal of Philology, Vol. XXIX, No. 114, 1908.
  • "A Professorial Recantation," Educational Review, Vol. XXXVIII, June 1909.
  • "The Making of a Professor," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CIV, November 1909.[3]
  • "The Literary History of Rome," The Dial, Vol. XLVII, July/December 1909.
  • "Philosophy of Trimmings," Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CV, 1910.
  • "Peace and the Professor," Part II, The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, Vol. XXIII, September 1910/June 1911.
  • "Introduction to Study of Greek Mythology." In The World's Progress, Part II, The Delphian Society, 1911.
  • "The Foxfielders at School," Educational Review, Vol. XLI, January 1911.
  • "The Ancients Illuminated," The Dial, Vol. L, January/June 1911.
  • "Let's us Have Peace!," The Dial, Vol. L, January/June 1911.
  • "The Ferreresque Style of Writing History," The Dial, Vol. LI, July/December 1911.
  • "The Making of a Democrat," The Yale Review, Vol. I, 1911/1912.
  • "The Glory that was Greece," The Dial, Vol. LII, January/June 1912.
  • "Roman Religious Experience," The Dial, Vol. LII, January/June 1912.
  • "Life and Letters," Educational Review, Vol. XLV, February 1913.
  • "Sunday in Andalusia," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIII, 1914.
  • "The Democrat Reflects," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
  • "The Story of a Microbophobiac," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
  • "The Case for Pigeon-Holes," The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
  • "A Critic of Democracy," The Dial, Vol. LVII, July/December 1914.
  • "Balzac and Flaubert," The Dial, Vol. LVII, July/December 1914.
  • "The Republic of Megaphon," The Unpopular Review, Vol. II, No. 4, October/December 1914.
  • "Fitness First," The Methodist Review, Vol. XXXI, January/February 1915.
  • "The Liberal Arts and Scientific Management," The Popular Science Monthly, June 1915.
  • "Valencia, and May," The Catholic World, Vol. CI, April/September 1915.
  • "The Drama Movement," The Dial, Vol. LVIII, January/June 1915.
  • "The Great Vocation," The Dial, Vol. LIX, June/December 1915.
  • "The New Painting," The Dial, Vol. LIX, June/December 1915.
  • "The Way of the Translator," The Unpopular Review, Vol. V, No. 9, January/March 1916.
  • "The Acceptable Year of the Lord," The Dial, Vol. LX, January/June 1916.
  • "Painting and the Public," The Dial, Vol. LX, January/June 1916.
  • "Sixty Years of the American Stage," The Dial, Vol. LXI, June/December 1916.
  • "Modest Modernist Papers," Part II, The Unpopular Review, Vol. VII, January/June 1917.
  • "Smith, Smoke and the War," The New Republic, February 1918.
  • “Machine and Man,” The Unpopular Review, Vol. IX, No. 18, April/June 1918.
  • "Theophrastus up to Date," The Bookman, Vol. XLVII, March/August 1918.
  • "The Ethernal City." In Classical Studies in Honor of Charles Foster Smith, Madison, 1919.
  • "Measuring the Immeasurable," The Nation, No. 109, July 1919.
  • "The Professor and the Pipes," The Unpopular Review, Vol. XI, No. 22, April/June 1919.
  • "The Pope's Last Appearance," University of California Chronicle, Vol. XXIV, 1922.
  • "The Dead and the Quick in Eternal Home," The Independent, Vol. CVIII, January/June 1922.
  • "Music Before a Roman Jury," The Independent, Vol. CIX, July/December 1922.
  • "The Struggle for Liberty," University of California Chronicle, 1926.
  • "Heckling the College," School and Society, Vol. XXIV, July/December 1926.
  • "The Liberal College," School and Society, Vol. XXV, January/June 1927.
  • "Art and Decency," The Yale Review, Vol. XI, 1922.[4]
  • "A Most Lamentable Comedy," School and Society, Vol. XXXIII, April 1931.

Other publications

  • "Attis." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. II, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
  • "Criobolium." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
  • "Cybele." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 19089.
  • "Death and Disposal of the Dead." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 19098.
  • Franz Cumont, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, with an introductory essay by Grant Showerman, Open Court Pub. Co., 1911.
  • "Isis." In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VII, 1914.
  • "Martial's Epigrams." In: Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. XVIII, 1919.
  • "Taurobolium.” In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. XII, 1921.
  • Author:Grant Showerman  – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ^ "Showerman, Grant," Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.
  2. ^ "Showerman, Grant 1870 - 1935," Dictionary of Wisconsin History.
  3. ^ Lodge, Gonzalez (1909). "Grant Showerman on the Making of a Professor," The Classical Weekly, Vol. 3, No. 9.
  4. ^ This article was later translated into Spanish. See "Arte y Decencia," Inter-América, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1922.

Further reading

  • Bassett, H. J., et al. (1936). "In Memoriam: Grant Showerman," The Classical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 9.
  • Oldfather, W. A. (1936). "In Memoriam: Grant Showerman of Wisconsin and Rome," The American Scholar, No. 5, September.

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