Zeph Stewart

Zeph Stewart (born January 1, 1921 in Jackson , Michigan , † December 1, 2007 in Watertown , Massachusetts ) was an American classical philologist .

Stewart studied from 1939 to 1942 Classical Philology at Yale University and received the top grade on his master's degree . After the USA entered World War II , he volunteered in January 1943. Together with the Japanologist Edwin O. Reischauer , he was busy at the Pentagon cracking Japanese radio codes. He later served in London and Paris , where he rose from private to captain .

After his release (1947) Stewart went to Harvard University as a Junior Fellow . From 1951 to 1953 he interrupted his university career again and took part in the Korean War as a liaison officer. In 1953 he was appointed Assistant Professor at Harvard. He remained connected to the university until the end of his life and took on various tasks: From 1963 to 1975 he headed the Lowell House , 1977 to 1982 the Institute for Classical Philology; from 1979 to 1982 he was Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , of which he had been a member since 1968. In 1983/84 he was president of the American Philological Association . From 1985 to 1992 he was director of the Center for Hellenic Studies .

Stewart's research interests included Greek philosophy and religion, the Latin poets ( Plautus , Virgil , Horace ) and Latin palaeography . However, he published very few of his own studies and was better known as an editor. He brought out the collected writings of his older colleague Arthur Darby Nock in 1972 in a two-volume edition. From 1973 to 2004 Stewart was also Executive Trustee of the Loeb Classical Library (LCL) and made a contribution to its academic reorientation.

Fonts (selection)

items

• The Amphitruo of Plautus and Euripides' Bacchae. In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 89, 1958, pp. 348-373, (online) .
• Democritus and the Cynics. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 63, 1958, pp. 179–191, (online) .
• Greek Crowns and Christian Martyrs. In: Enzo Lucchesi, Henri-Dominique Saffrey (ed.): Mémorial André-Jean Festugière . Antiquité païenne et chrétienne. Geneva, Cramer 1984 (Cahiers d'orientalisme 10), pp. 119-124.

Editing

• The Ancient World. Justice, Heroism, and Responsibility . Cliffe 1966
• Arthur Darby Nock: Essays on Religion and the Ancient World . Two volumes, Oxford 1972. Reprinted in 1986

literature

• Nota Bene . Volume 13 (2008), No. 3: Special Memorial Issue [in Honor of Zeph Stewart] ( PDF file ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))

Web links

• Entry on Zeph Stewart in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Obituary for Zeph Stewart in the Harvard Gazette (English)