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Paul Shorey

Paul Shorey Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. (August 3, 1857 – April 24, 1934) was an American classical scholar.

Paul Shorey
Professor Shorey, circa 1909.
Born(1857-08-03)August 3, 1857
Davenport, Iowa, United States
DiedApril 24, 1934(1934-04-24) (aged 76)
Chicago, Illinois, U. S.
Alma materHarvard University
Bryn Mawr College
University of Chicago
University of Munich

Biography

Shorey was born at Davenport, Iowa. After graduating from Harvard in 1878, he studied in Europe at Leipzig, Bonn, Athens, and Munich (Ph.D., 1884). He was a professor at several institutions from 1885 onward. Professor Shorey served at Bryn Mawr College (1885–92), then principally at the University of Chicago. In 1901-02 he was professor in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, and in 1913-14 he was Roosevelt Lecturer in the University of Berlin. Professor Shorey was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. From 1908 he was managing editor of Classical Philology.

He died in Chicago. After his death, one of many articles published about him asserted that he knew all 15,693 lines of the Iliad by heart.[1]

The Roosevelt Lectureship

The Roosevelt Lecturership involved giving a series of public lectures. In these, Shorey addressed American culture and literature. Besides the public lectures, however, the Roosevelt Lecturer was required to give a seminar in his own special field of study. As a notable Platonic scholar, Shorey naturally offered to conduct a seminar on Plato. He had not reckoned on the views of American scholarship held by the principal German classicist, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who held sway in Berlin. Wilamowitz had no intention of allowing Shorey any scope on Plato:

'In a letter to Diels of 8 May 1912 ... he wrote that he considered it 'grotesque that the editor of a Chicago journal be brought to Berlin to teach us philology'. ... Wilamowitz could not of course know that Shorey would later refer to his Platon as a 'historical novel' (What Plato Said 1933 p2.), but could have been aware that in a 1911 article in the Nation ... Shorey had named him in a list of German scholars whose 'big ambitious books ... cannot be trusted' (392). Wilamowitz was no more receptive to Shorey's next suggestion, of Pindar, since the two differed on metrical questions. In the end, permission was given for a seminar on the De Anima'.[2]

As Sprague points out, Wilamowitz had not reckoned on Shorey's view that 'Aristotle is a Platonist au fond'.[3] In the seminar he explained the relevance, in his view, of Plato's Theaetetus, Phaedo, Republic, Euthydemus, Sophist. Politicus, Meno, and Philebus to a full and exact understanding of De Anima. Sprague comments: 'I am afraid I find it irresistible to remark that Wilamowitz did not really succeed in preventing Shorey from giving a Plato seminar'.[3]

Writing

Books

  • De Platonis Idearum Doctrina. Munich: Theodor Askermann, 1884.
  • The Assault on Humanism. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Company, 1917.
  • The Unity of Plato's Thought. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1903.
  • Sophocles. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931.
  • What Plato Said. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1933.
  • Platonism, Ancient and Modern. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1938.
  • Selected Papers, 2 Vols. New York: Garland Pub., 1980.
  • The Roosevelt Lectures of Paul Shorey: (1913–1914). Hildesheim: G. Olms Verlag, 1995.

Translations

  • An edition of Horace's Odes and Epodes (1898; revised, with Laing, 1910).
  • Plato (1937) [1930]. The Republic of Plato : with an English translation by Paul Shorey. Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 1. Translated by Shorey, Paul. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. LCCN unk83017287. OCLC 669777366. OL 20425902M. Paul Shorey at the Internet Archive.
  • Plato (1935) [1942]. The Republic of Plato : with an English translation by Paul Shorey. Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 2. Translated by Shorey, Paul. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. LCCN a44004515. OCLC 669777366. Paul Shorey at the Internet Archive.

Selected articles

  • "The Odyssey in Rhythmic English Prose," The Dial, Vol. V, May 1884/April 1885.
  • "Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious," The Dial, Vol. V, May 1884/April 1885.
  • "The Pagan Christ," The Dial, Vol. VII, May 1886/April 1887.
  • "Jevon's History of Greek Literature," The Dial, Vol. VII, May 1886/April 1887.
  • "The Science of Thought," The Dial, Vol. VIII, May 1887/April 1888.
  • "On the Track of Ulysses," The Dial, Vol. VIII, May 1887/April 1888.
  • "Max Müller's Biographies of Words," The Dial, Vol. VIII, May 1887/April 1888.
  • "Erdmann's History of Philosophy," The Classical Review, Vol. IV, 1890.
  • "A Word with Tennyson Dissenters," The Dial, Vol. XIV, January/June 1893.
  • "Plato and Platonism," The Dial, Vol. XIV, January/June 1893.
  • "The Homeric Question Once More," The Dial, Vol. XV, July/December 1893.
  • "An Evolutionist's Alarm," The Dial, Vol. XV, July/December 1893.
  • "Spencer on the Principles of Beneficence," The Dial, Vol. XV, July/December 1893.
  • "Greek Poetry and Life," The Dial, Vol. XVI, January/June 1894.
  • "The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic." In: Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. I, The University of Chicago Press, 1895.
  • "To Ancient Greek through Modern? No!," The Forum, Vol. XVIII, 1895.
  • "Can We Revive the Olympic Games?," The Forum, Vol. XIX, 1895.
  • "Paris Commune of 1871," The Dial, Vol. XX, January/June 1896.
  • "Present Conditions of Literary Production," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXVIII, 1896.
  • "Discipline vs. Dissipation in Secondary Education," School Review, Vol. V, 1897.
  • "A New Classical Dictionary," The Dial, Vol. XXII, January/June 1897.
  • "The Monuments and Antiquities of Greece," The Dial, Vol. XXIV, January/June 1898.
  • "Plato." In: Philosophers and Scientists, Vol. I, Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899.
  • "The Successors of Homer," The Dial, Vol. XXVI, January/June 1899.
  • "Religion in Greek Literature," The Dial, Vol. XXVII, July/December 1899.
  • "History of Modern Philosophy," The Dial, Vol. XXIX, July/December 1900.
  • "Plato, Lucretius and Epicurus," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. XII, 1901.
  • "Science of Meaning," The Dial, Vol. XXX, January/June 1901.
  • "An Historian of Ideas," The Dial, Vol. XXX, January/June 1901.
  • "The Greek Thinkers and their Environment," The Dial, Vol. XXXI, July/December 1901.
  • "Philology and Classical Philology," The Classical Journal, Vol. I, No. 6, May 1906.
  • "The Influence of the Classics on American Literature," The Chautauquan, Vol. XLIII, 1906.
  • "Discipline in Modern Education," The Bookman, Vol. XXIII, 1906.
  • "Mr. Lang's Homeric Queries," The Dial, Vol. XLII, January/June 1907.
  • "Benjamin Jowett, Teacher, Platonist and Scholar," The Chautauquan, Vol. XLVI, 1907.
  • "A Dramatic Historian," The Dial, Vol. XLIII, July/December 1907.
  • "The Equivocations of Pragmatism," The Dial, Vol. XLIII, July/December 1907.
  • "Relations of Classical Literature to Other Branches of Learning," International Congress of Arts and Science, Vol. VI, 1908.
  • "The Spirit of the University of Chicago," The University of Chicago Magazine, Vol. I, No. 6, April 1909.
  • "The Poet of Science," The Dial, Vol. XLVI, January/June 1909.
  • "Spelling Reform in Extremis," The Dial, Vol. XLVII, July/December 1909.
  • "Mill Revealed in his Letters," The Dial, Vol. XLVIII, January/June 1910.
  • "The Case for the Classics," The School Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 9, 1910.
  • "Talks on Character and Temperament," The Dial, Vol. XLIX, July/December 1910.
  • "American Scholarship," Educational Review, Vol. XLII, June/December 1911.
  • "The Study of Greek Literature." In: Greek Literature, The Columbia University Press, 1912.
  • "The Place of the Languages and Literatures in the College Curriculum." In The American College, Henry Holt and Company, 1915.
  • "The Bigotry of the New Education," The Nation, Vol. CV, 1917.
  • "The Assault on Humanism," Part II, The Atlantic Monthly, Vols. CXIX/CXX, 1917.
  • "Fifty Years of Classical Studies in America," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. L, 1919.
  • "A Note on Herodotus," Classical Philology, Vol. XV, 1920.

Other publications

  • Pope's translation of The Iliad of Homer, with an introduction and notes by Paul Shorey, 1899.
  • "Herodotus." In: The New International Encyclopædia, Vol. X, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906, pp. 14–15.
  • "Homer." In: The New International Encyclopædia, Vol. X, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906, pp. 166–168.
  • "Pindar." In: The New International Encyclopædia, Vol. XVI, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906, pp. 31–32.
  • "Plato." In: The New International Encyclopædia, Vol. XVI, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906, 101–104.
  • Marion Mills Miller (ed.), The Classics, Greek and Latim, with an introduction by Paul Shorey, 1909.

Legacy

A house in University of Chicago College housing is named in Shorey's honor. Shorey House was located in Pierce Tower until that building's demolition in 2013 and is now located in International House.[4]

Shorey's student, Harold F. Cherniss, was a well-known historian of ancient philosophy at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and defended Shorey's unitarian interpretation of Plato in several influential books. Shorey's views thus became a central theme of later debates over Plato and Aristotle.

Notes

  1. ^ "Paul Shorey 1857–1934." Classical Philology 29, no. 3 (Jul., 1934): 185-188.
  2. ^ Rosamund Kent Sprague, Review of The Roosevelt Lectures of Paul Shorey 1913-14, tr. E.C. Reinke, ed. W.W. Briggs and E.C. Kopff, Hildesheim, 1995: Ancient Philosophy, 17.1, 1997: 207
  3. ^ a b Sprague: 208
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-01-31. Retrieved 2014-06-06.

References

Further reading

  • Bonner, Robert J. (1934). "Paul Shorey," The Classical Journal, Vol. 29, No. 9, pp. 641–643.
  • Norlin, George (1934). "Paul Shorey–The Teacher," Classical Philology, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 188–191.
  • Putnam, Emily James (1938). "Paul Shorey," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 161, pp. 795–804.

External links

  • Paul Shorey at the Database of Classical Scholars
  • Works by Paul Shorey at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Paul Shorey at Internet Archive
  • Works by Paul Shorey at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)  
  • Works by Paul Shorey, at JSTOR
  • Works by Paul Shorey, at Hathi Trust
  • Paul Shorey Letters at Newberry Library
  • Sather Professor Portraits
  • Guide to the Paul Shorey Papers 1865-1934 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

paul, shorey, comedian, pauly, shore, litt, august, 1857, april, 1934, american, classical, scholar, professor, shorey, circa, 1909, born, 1857, august, 1857davenport, iowa, united, statesdiedapril, 1934, 1934, aged, chicago, illinois, alma, materharvard, univ. For the comedian see Pauly Shore Paul Shorey Ph D LL D Litt D August 3 1857 April 24 1934 was an American classical scholar Paul ShoreyProfessor Shorey circa 1909 Born 1857 08 03 August 3 1857Davenport Iowa United StatesDiedApril 24 1934 1934 04 24 aged 76 Chicago Illinois U S Alma materHarvard UniversityBryn Mawr CollegeUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Munich Contents 1 Biography 2 The Roosevelt Lectureship 3 Writing 4 Legacy 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksBiography EditShorey was born at Davenport Iowa After graduating from Harvard in 1878 he studied in Europe at Leipzig Bonn Athens and Munich Ph D 1884 He was a professor at several institutions from 1885 onward Professor Shorey served at Bryn Mawr College 1885 92 then principally at the University of Chicago In 1901 02 he was professor in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Greece and in 1913 14 he was Roosevelt Lecturer in the University of Berlin Professor Shorey was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters From 1908 he was managing editor of Classical Philology He died in Chicago After his death one of many articles published about him asserted that he knew all 15 693 lines of the Iliad by heart 1 The Roosevelt Lectureship EditThe Roosevelt Lecturership involved giving a series of public lectures In these Shorey addressed American culture and literature Besides the public lectures however the Roosevelt Lecturer was required to give a seminar in his own special field of study As a notable Platonic scholar Shorey naturally offered to conduct a seminar on Plato He had not reckoned on the views of American scholarship held by the principal German classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz Moellendorff who held sway in Berlin Wilamowitz had no intention of allowing Shorey any scope on Plato In a letter to Diels of 8 May 1912 he wrote that he considered it grotesque that the editor of a Chicago journal be brought to Berlin to teach us philology Wilamowitz could not of course know that Shorey would later refer to his Platon as a historical novel What Plato Said 1933 p2 but could have been aware that in a 1911 article in the Nation Shorey had named him in a list of German scholars whose big ambitious books cannot be trusted 392 Wilamowitz was no more receptive to Shorey s next suggestion of Pindar since the two differed on metrical questions In the end permission was given for a seminar on the De Anima 2 As Sprague points out Wilamowitz had not reckoned on Shorey s view that Aristotle is a Platonist au fond 3 In the seminar he explained the relevance in his view of Plato s Theaetetus Phaedo Republic Euthydemus Sophist Politicus Meno and Philebus to a full and exact understanding of De Anima Sprague comments I am afraid I find it irresistible to remark that Wilamowitz did not really succeed in preventing Shorey from giving a Plato seminar 3 Writing EditBooks De Platonis Idearum Doctrina Munich Theodor Askermann 1884 The Assault on Humanism Boston Atlantic Monthly Company 1917 The Unity of Plato s Thought Chicago The University of Chicago Press 1903 Sophocles Cambridge Harvard University Press 1931 What Plato Said Chicago The University of Chicago Press 1933 Platonism Ancient and Modern Berkeley Calif University of California Press 1938 Selected Papers 2 Vols New York Garland Pub 1980 The Roosevelt Lectures of Paul Shorey 1913 1914 Hildesheim G Olms Verlag 1995 Translations An edition of Horace s Odes and Epodes 1898 revised with Laing 1910 Plato 1937 1930 The Republic of Plato with an English translation by Paul Shorey Loeb Classical Library Vol 1 Translated by Shorey Paul Cambridge Massachusetts London Harvard University Press William Heinemann Ltd LCCN unk83017287 OCLC 669777366 OL 20425902M Paul Shorey at the Internet Archive Plato 1935 1942 The Republic of Plato with an English translation by Paul Shorey Loeb Classical Library Vol 2 Translated by Shorey Paul Cambridge Massachusetts London Harvard University Press William Heinemann Ltd LCCN a44004515 OCLC 669777366 Paul Shorey at the Internet Archive Selected articles The Odyssey in Rhythmic English Prose The Dial Vol V May 1884 April 1885 Hartmann s Philosophy of the Unconscious The Dial Vol V May 1884 April 1885 The Pagan Christ The Dial Vol VII May 1886 April 1887 Jevon s History of Greek Literature The Dial Vol VII May 1886 April 1887 The Science of Thought The Dial Vol VIII May 1887 April 1888 On the Track of Ulysses The Dial Vol VIII May 1887 April 1888 Max Muller s Biographies of Words The Dial Vol VIII May 1887 April 1888 Erdmann s History of Philosophy The Classical Review Vol IV 1890 A Word with Tennyson Dissenters The Dial Vol XIV January June 1893 Plato and Platonism The Dial Vol XIV January June 1893 The Homeric Question Once More The Dial Vol XV July December 1893 An Evolutionist s Alarm The Dial Vol XV July December 1893 Spencer on the Principles of Beneficence The Dial Vol XV July December 1893 Greek Poetry and Life The Dial Vol XVI January June 1894 The Idea of Good in Plato s Republic In Studies in Classical Philology Vol I The University of Chicago Press 1895 To Ancient Greek through Modern No The Forum Vol XVIII 1895 Can We Revive the Olympic Games The Forum Vol XIX 1895 Paris Commune of 1871 The Dial Vol XX January June 1896 Present Conditions of Literary Production The Atlantic Monthly Vol LXXVIII 1896 Discipline vs Dissipation in Secondary Education School Review Vol V 1897 A New Classical Dictionary The Dial Vol XXII January June 1897 The Monuments and Antiquities of Greece The Dial Vol XXIV January June 1898 Plato In Philosophers and Scientists Vol I Doubleday amp McClure Company 1899 The Successors of Homer The Dial Vol XXVI January June 1899 Religion in Greek Literature The Dial Vol XXVII July December 1899 History of Modern Philosophy The Dial Vol XXIX July December 1900 Plato Lucretius and Epicurus Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Vol XII 1901 Science of Meaning The Dial Vol XXX January June 1901 An Historian of Ideas The Dial Vol XXX January June 1901 The Greek Thinkers and their Environment The Dial Vol XXXI July December 1901 Philology and Classical Philology The Classical Journal Vol I No 6 May 1906 The Influence of the Classics on American Literature The Chautauquan Vol XLIII 1906 Discipline in Modern Education The Bookman Vol XXIII 1906 Mr Lang s Homeric Queries The Dial Vol XLII January June 1907 Benjamin Jowett Teacher Platonist and Scholar The Chautauquan Vol XLVI 1907 A Dramatic Historian The Dial Vol XLIII July December 1907 The Equivocations of Pragmatism The Dial Vol XLIII July December 1907 Relations of Classical Literature to Other Branches of Learning International Congress of Arts and Science Vol VI 1908 The Spirit of the University of Chicago The University of Chicago Magazine Vol I No 6 April 1909 The Poet of Science The Dial Vol XLVI January June 1909 Spelling Reform in Extremis The Dial Vol XLVII July December 1909 Mill Revealed in his Letters The Dial Vol XLVIII January June 1910 The Case for the Classics The School Review Vol XVIII No 9 1910 Talks on Character and Temperament The Dial Vol XLIX July December 1910 American Scholarship Educational Review Vol XLII June December 1911 The Study of Greek Literature In Greek Literature The Columbia University Press 1912 The Place of the Languages and Literatures in the College Curriculum In The American College Henry Holt and Company 1915 The Bigotry of the New Education The Nation Vol CV 1917 The Assault on Humanism Part II The Atlantic Monthly Vols CXIX CXX 1917 Fifty Years of Classical Studies in America Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association Vol L 1919 A Note on Herodotus Classical Philology Vol XV 1920 Other publications Pope s translation of The Iliad of Homer with an introduction and notes by Paul Shorey 1899 Herodotus In The New International Encyclopaedia Vol X Dodd Mead amp Company 1906 pp 14 15 Homer In The New International Encyclopaedia Vol X Dodd Mead amp Company 1906 pp 166 168 Pindar In The New International Encyclopaedia Vol XVI Dodd Mead amp Company 1906 pp 31 32 Plato In The New International Encyclopaedia Vol XVI Dodd Mead amp Company 1906 101 104 Marion Mills Miller ed The Classics Greek and Latim with an introduction by Paul Shorey 1909 Legacy EditA house in University of Chicago College housing is named in Shorey s honor Shorey House was located in Pierce Tower until that building s demolition in 2013 and is now located in International House 4 Shorey s student Harold F Cherniss was a well known historian of ancient philosophy at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and defended Shorey s unitarian interpretation of Plato in several influential books Shorey s views thus became a central theme of later debates over Plato and Aristotle Notes Edit Paul Shorey 1857 1934 Classical Philology 29 no 3 Jul 1934 185 188 Rosamund Kent Sprague Review of The Roosevelt Lectures of Paul Shorey 1913 14 tr E C Reinke ed W W Briggs and E C Kopff Hildesheim 1995 Ancient Philosophy 17 1 1997 207 a b Sprague 208 University of Chicago Archived from the original on 2014 01 31 Retrieved 2014 06 06 References EditRines George Edwin ed 1920 Shorey Paul Encyclopedia Americana Further reading EditBonner Robert J 1934 Paul Shorey The Classical Journal Vol 29 No 9 pp 641 643 Norlin George 1934 Paul Shorey The Teacher Classical Philology Vol 29 No 3 pp 188 191 Putnam Emily James 1938 Paul Shorey The Atlantic Monthly Vol 161 pp 795 804 External links EditPaul Shorey at the Database of Classical Scholars Wikisource has original works by or about Paul Shorey Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paul Shorey Scholia has a profile for Paul Shorey Q1760571 Works by Paul Shorey at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Paul Shorey at Internet Archive Works by Paul Shorey at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Works by Paul Shorey at JSTOR Works by Paul Shorey at Hathi Trust Paul Shorey Letters at Newberry Library Sather Professor Portraits Guide to the Paul Shorey Papers 1865 1934 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Paul Shorey amp oldid 1125104538, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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