Phillip Howard DeLacy

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Phillip Howard DeLacy , also written by himself with Spatium De Lacy, (born May 4, 1913 in Seattle , Washington , † June 17, 2006 in Oak Harbor , Washington) was an American Graecist , philosophy historian and medical historian .

Life

DeLacy's father was a high school history and English teacher. DeLacy himself studied classics at the University of Washington and obtained his BA in 1932 after four years of study, and an MA in Greek philology there a year later. He received his doctorate in 1939 with a dissertation The Problem of Causation in Plato's Philosophy with Robert M. Scoon at Princeton University .

He began his career as an instructor in classics at Princeton University (1936–1938). He then moved to Stanford University as an assistant professor (1938–1940), as an instructor in Latin at the University of Chicago (1940–1943), and as an assistant professor (1943–1949) at Washington University, where he was Professor of Classics and became Chair of Department (1949–1961). He moved again as Professor of Classics to Northwestern University (1961–1965), then in the same position to Cornell University (1965–1967) and finally until his retirement as Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1967–1978) , where he was chair of department from 1967–1973 . He was also a visiting professor of classics at Cornell University (1958–1959), a Guggenheim Fellow (1960–1961) and a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1975–1976).

He was also a delegate, probably of the American Philological Association , in the American Council of Learned Societies (1971-1975) and President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South , (1963-1964) and the American Philological Association (1966-1967). Finally, he was editor of the respected philological journal Transactions of the American Philological Association (1949-1952) and acting editor of the equally respected Classical Journal (1955-1956).

DeLacy had two brothers: Allan C. De Lacy, longtime professor of fisheries at the University of Washington, and Hugh De Lacy , a prominent leftist politician and chairman of the Washington Commonwealth Federation and a member of Seattle City Council .

On December 19, 1936, DeLacy married Estelle Allen , with whom he would subsequently also work.

Research areas

DeLacy worked in the field of Greek philosophy, especially Philodem , Plutarch (Volume VII of the Loeb Classical Library Plutarch was created in collaboration with Benedict Einarson ) and especially his anti-Epicurean writings (in this context also on Lucretius ) and the Greek doctor and philosopher Galen . In all of these publications, DeLacy made considerable contributions to the constitution and understanding of the text; the two Plutarch volumes surpassed the judgment of authoritative specialist colleagues (for example Francis Henry Sandbach , in: Classical Review 10, 1960, 214–215 and 18, 1968, 47– 48) even the corresponding volumes of the Teubner edition. An article on the reception of poetry by the Hellenistic philosophy school of the Stoa is also cited .

Fonts (selection)

dissertation

  • The Problem of Causation in Plato's Philosophy (Ph.D. thesis 1939; published in part in Classical Philology 1939).

Text editions

  • Philodemus, On Methods of Inference. A Study in Ancient Empiricism. Edited with translation and commentary by Phillip Howard DeLacy and Estelle Allen DeLacy. American Philological Association, Philadelphia, Pa. 1941. Second edition: Bibliopolis, Naples 1978.
  • with Benedict Einarson: Plutarch's Moralia . Vol. VII, 1959 (Loeb Classical Library L 405). - (Contains: On Love of Wealth. On Compliancy. On Envy and Hate. On Praising Oneself Inoffensively. On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance. On Fate. On the Sign of Socrates. On Exile. Consolation to His Wife )
  • Plutarch's Moralia . Vol. XIV, 1967 (Loeb Classical Library L 428). - (Contains: That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible. Reply to Colotes in Defense of the Other Philosophers. Is "Live Unknown" a Wise Precept? On Music )
  • Galeni De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis (On the doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato) . Edidit, in linguam Anglicam vertit, commentatus est Phillip De Lacy. 3 vols. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, 1980, 1984 (= Corpus medicorum Graecorum. V 4, 1, 2). - Vol. I: Editio tertia lucis ope expressa, vol. II: editio altera lucis ope expressa, vol. III: editio altera lucis ope expressa addendis et corrigendis aucta, Berlin 2005.
  • Galeni De semine (On Semen). Edidit, in linguam Anglicam vertit, commentatus est Phillip De Lacy. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992 (Corpus medicorum Graecorum V 3.1)
  • Galeni De elementis ex Hippocratis sententia (On the elements according to Hippocrates). Edidit, in linguam Anglicam vertit, commentatus est Phillip De Lacy. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996 (Corpus medicorum Graecorum V 1,2)

items

  • Stoic Views of Poetry , in: American Journal of Philology, Volume 69, Baltimore 1948, pp. 241-271

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personal data
SURNAME DeLacy, Phillip Howard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Lacy, Phillip Howard; de Lacy, Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Graecist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2006
Place of death Oak Harbor, Washington