Fifty Years of Sathers: The Sather Professorship of Classical Literature in the University of California, Berkeley 1913/4–1963/4 [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520329935

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F I F T Y YEARS OF S A T H E R S

MRS. JANE KROM (READ) SATHER

I FT Y Y E A R H

. r i .

THE SATHER P R O F E S S O R S H I P CLASSICAL IN UNIVERSITY

OF

LITERATURE THE

OF

CALIFORNIA,

BERKELEY 1913/4-1963/4

BY S T E R L I N G

DOW

U N I V E R S I T Y OF CALIFORNIA B E R K E L E Y AND LOS A N G E L E S

1965

PRESS

UNIVERSITY

OF CALIFORNIA

PRESS

Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

PRESS

London, England

© 1965 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Card Catalog Number

65-/7^9

Printed in the United States of America Designed by Adrian Wilson

CONTENTS

The present booklet consists first of a historical essay, pages 1 - 2 2 , intended f o r general reading. T h e headings of this essay are printed below in C A P I T A L LETTERS. The second part, the NOTES, pages 2 3 - 5 5 , discusses the details listed here as subheadings.

Frontispiece: Mrs. Jane Krom (Read) Sather INTRODUCTORY NOTES

23

Prefatory

23

Acknowledgments

26

Sources

27

Portraits

27

Pronunciation

28

Table of Presidents

29

T H E F O U N D I N G : B. I. Wheeler and Jane K. Sather .

1

NOTES:

Peder and Jane K. Sather

30

Jane K. Sather's Bequests

32

The "Sather Gate"

33

The Campanile

33

The Bells

34

The Sather Professorship of History Other Classical and Humane Lecture Series Elsewhere .

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T H E EARLY SATHERS: J.LMyres

5

NOTES:

The First Sather The Early Years, 1914/5 — 1919/20

37 37

T H E R E - F O U N D A T I O N : I.M.Linforthand G. M. Calhoun

6

THE PRINTED VOLUMES J . A. SCOTT'S

6

Unity of Homer

7

NOTES:

The Year of Change T H E PROFESSORS A N D T H E V O L U M E S .

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STANDARDS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES

II

FIELDS COVERED

14

THE SATHERS AS LECTURES

17

THE BEST SATHERS

19

BEST OF THE BEST

21

NOTES:

The Origin of The Mycenaean Origin The Press

41 41

S P E C I A L NOTES ON VARIOUS ASPECTS ADMINISTRATIVE

Early Salaries The $1250 Withheld Years of Appointments Sather Lectures, Special Series Not by Sather Professors

42 43 43 . 44

SELECTION OF SATHER PROFESSORS

Sphere of the Sather Professors Greek vs. Latin Restrictions Practical Difficulties Countries and Universities Vital Statistics The Problem of Choice

45 46 46 47 47 48 50

LECTURES

The Number of Lectures Day and Hour

50 52

T H E SATHER VOLUMES

Administration Printings Lengths "Literary Flavor"

52 53 53 54

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF S A T H E R P R O F E S S O R S Y E A R S , N A M E S , DATA ON SATHER VOLUMES

PLATES INDEX

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PUBLISHER'S

N O T E

STERLING DOW, Sathcr Professor of Classical Literature for the spring semester, 1964, is John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology at Harvard, where he received the A.B., A . M . , and PhX). degrees. The five years preceding his doctorate he had spent in Greece, as a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and since then has frequently returned to Greece for study and travel. A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow in 1934—35» he has been a member of the advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation since 1951. He was a staff member in the Office of Strategic Services, Washington and Cairo, 1942-44. He has been president of the Archaeological Institute of America (1946-48) and of the Classical Association of New England (1955—56), vice-president of the American Classical League (1949-54), founder an 55- 5 6 Alexander, W . H., 41 Allen, J. T „ 41 Allinson, F. G „ 58 Anderson, J. K., 26 Anderson, W . S., 26 Bailey, Cyril, 11, 47, 54, 61 Barrows, D . P., 29, 39, 40 Bassett, S. E., 44, 49, 53, 62 Beazley, J. D., 1 5 - 1 6 , 18, 20, 36, 44, 45. 47. 53. 54. 63• 6 4 Biegen, C . W „ 45, 63 Bolton, H . E., 3 5 Bonner, R. J., 15, 40, 62 Broneer, O., 44 Burnet, John, 14, 54, 60 Calhoun, G. M., 6, 3 9 - 4 1 Campbell, W . W., 29 Carpenter, Rhys, 10, 1 3 , 16, 18, 20, 53. 6 4 Cherniss, H., 45, 63 Clark, G. W., 34 Conway, R. S., 38 Cornford, F. M., 38 Daux, Georges, 66 Dinsmoor, W . B., 47 Dobbie, Lucie E. N . , 26

Dodds, E. R., 1 3 , 1 9 - 2 0 , 53, 54, 65 Dornin,' M a y , 26 Dover, K . J., 68 Dow, Sterling, 68 Duff, J. W., 1 1 , 6 2 Emeneau, M . B., 26 Evans, Sir Arthur, 5 Farquhar, F. P., 26, 41 Ferguson, W . S., 32, 37 Ferrier, W . W., 27 Festugière, A . M . J., 1 6 - 1 7 , 47> Flagg, Isaac, 34 Fontenrose, J., 26 Foster, B. O., 44, 48, 49, 63 Frank, Tenney, 1 3 , 18, 20, 47, 53, 61 Frankel, H . F., 14, 52, 63 Frugé, August, 27 Gayley, C . M . , 29 Gildersleeve, B. L., 38, 49 Glover, T . R., 15, 38, 42, 60 Gomme, A . W., 15, 55, 65 Gordon, A. E., 26 Gordon, Joyce, 26 Grégoire, Henri, 63 Grummere, R. M., 36 Guttridge, G. H., 3 5

INDEX Hearst, George, 31 Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 31 Hearst, W . R., 31 Hendrickson, G. L., 43, 59 Huxley, G. L., 26, 29

Persson, A. W „ 63 Phillimore, J. S., 38, 47, 57 Poeschi, V., 68 Post, L. A., 12, 54, 64 Prather, Laura, 27 Prentice, W. K „ 58 Prescott, H. W., 23, 42, 48, 51, 58 Pritchett, W . K., 26

Jaeger, W . W „ 15, 36, 48, 49, 62 Jones, William Carey, 28, 29

Rand, E. K„ 38, 42, 43, 51, 59 Renehan, R. F. X., 26 Robb, A. R., 26 Robinson, E. S., 15 Rose, H. J., 14, 47, 63 Ross, M., 26 RostovtzeS, M., 47

Kantor, J. R. K „ 26, 28 Keith, William, 27 Kenney, E. J., 68 Kerner, R. J., 35 Kerr, Clark, 29, 51 Kicto, H. D. F., 14, 67 Knox, B. M. W „ 14, 48, 49, 68 Koniaris, G. L., 26

Sather, Jane K., 1-2, 27, 28, 30-33, 35.40 Sather, Peder, 1-2, 30-31 Scholz, R. F., 37 Scott, J. A., 7, 12, 18, 20, 39-41, 42, 5 ' . 54. 59 Shorey, Paul, 6, 14, 38, 42, 44, 48, 49, 58, 61 Small, H. A., 26, 41 Smith, H. R. W „ 26 Smith, K. F., 38, 47 Smyth, H. W „ 13, 60 Snell, Bruno, 14, 44, 68 Sproul, R. G., 29 Stanford, W . B„ 68 Stephens, H. M., 32, 35 Strong, E. W., 26 Stuart, D. R., 12, 14, 49, 54, 60 Syme, Ronald, 16, 18-20, 26, 53, 54, 67

Laing, G. L., 51, 58 Laistner, M. L. W., 16, 64 Larsen, J. A. O., 12, 14, 20, 65 Linforth, I. M., 6, 23, 26, 27, 39, 40 Lowell, R. E„ 36 Luce, A. A., 29 MacKay, L. A., 26 Meritt, B. D., 15, 66 Merritt, R. P., 29 Momigliano, A. D., 67 Murray, Gilbert (George Gilbert Aimé), 36, 37, 38, 42, 45 Myres, J. L„ 4, 6, 23, 37-38, 42, 43, 45- 4 6 "47. 4 8 . 5°. 53* 57. 6 1 Nilsson M. P., 22, 41, 47, 53, 61 Nock, A. D., 47 Norwood, G., 14, 16, 42, 54, 64

Taylor, Lily Ross, 16, 20, 52, 64

Oldfather, W . A., 62

Wade-Gerry, H. T., 44 Wahlraven, J., 26 Walters, H. B„ 34 Whatmough, Joshua, 16, 51, 66 Wheeler, A. L., 14, 53, 54, 61 Wheeler, B. I., 1-2, 4, 27, 29, 32, 34-

Paetow, L. J., 59 Page, D. L., 5, 12, 16, 18-19, 49, 51, 54. 55. 66 Parcell, J., 26 Parry, Milman, 9 Paynes, Humfry, 5 Perry, B. E„ 65

35. 37-39. 4°. 42> 45- 49 Witke, C. E., 26 JO