Edward Parmelee Morris

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Edward Parmelee Morris (17 September 1853 - 16 November 1938) was an American classicist.

Life[]

He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, N.Y.^[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.^[2] On January 2, 1879, he married Charlotte Webster Humphrey; her father was the Reverend Z.M. Humphrey and a professor at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.^[2] Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987).^[2] Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College.^[2] Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.^[1]

Career[]

From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.^[3][2] In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature^[4][3] at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence,^[2] which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena.^[1] He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891.^[1] He became a significant influence on the work of , who became Sather Professor at Princeton.^[5]

Honors[]

Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,^[3] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.^[2]

Bibliography[]

Some of his notable books are:^[6]

• The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus^[7]
• The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes
• On principles and methods in Latin syntax
• On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence
• The study of Latin in the preparatory course

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