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 materUniversity of Chicago

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 professor 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]

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

Selected articles

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.[2]

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. "University of Chicago". 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.
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