Herbert Weir Smyth (August 8, 1857 – July 16, 1937) was an American classical scholar. His comprehensive grammar of Ancient Greek has become a standard reference on the subject in English, comparable to that of William Watson Goodwin, whom he succeeded as Eliott Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University.
The Sacred Literature of the Jains (1894, a translation)
Sounds and Inflections of Greek Dialects I: The Ionic Dialect (Clarendon Press, 1894)
Greek Melic Poets (McMillan, 1900)
Beginner's Greek Book (1906) (with Allen Rogers Benner; American Book Company 1906)
A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges (1916)
Greek Grammar for Colleges (American Book Company, 1920)
Aeschylean Tragedy (the second Sather Lecture in 1924)
Aeschylus (Loeb edition)
"The Greek Language in its Relation to the Psychology of the Ancient Greeks" (read before the Congress of Arts and Sciences at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904)
"Aspects of Greek Conservatism" (in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1906)
"Greek Conceptions of Immortality from Homer to Plato" (in Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects, 1912)
He was editor of the Greek Series for Colleges and Schools (20 volumes).
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Smyth, Herbert Weir". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
Further reading
"Herbert Weir Smyth." Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport/London 1994) 602–604.
External links
Herbert Weir Smyth at the Database of Classical Scholars
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