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Herbert Weir Smyth '78, Eliot professor of Greek literature, will lecture on "Alcaeus and Sappho" in Harvard 1 at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Professor Smyth was graduated from Swarthmore in 1876, and received a second A.B. from Harvard in 1878. He was awarded a Ph.D. at the University of Gottingen, Germany, in 1884. Before being appointed to his present position here, he was professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr...
...LECTURE. "Alcaeus and Sappho." Professor Herbert Weir Smyta. Harvard...
...LECTURE. "Alcaeus and Sappho." Professor Herbert Weir Smyth. Harvard...
...scantiest fragments of Roman tragedies are extant; but in comedy the case is quite the reverse, as twenty-six plays of Plautus and Terence are preserved. In poetry the similarity can also be observed. The lyrics of Catullus and Horace were often suggested by those of Archilochus, Sappho, or Alcaeus. In Vergil the analogy is not nearly so apparent...
...life and works of Alcaeus...