Austin Morris Harmon


Austin Morris Harmon Ph.D., LL.D. was an American classical scholar, mostly notable for his bilingual editions of Lucian's works in the Loeb Classical Library.

Biography

His parents were George B. and Catharine Crowe Harmon. His teachers were B.A. Williams and M.A. Yale. Additionally he studied in Göttingen in 1903-4. He became PhD in 1908 and LL.D. in 1927.
He published two volumes of the Loeb Lucian while being a preceptor in Greek at Princeton University. He was soon recognized as a master translator and editor, and even Paul Shorey found little to criticize but much to praise. Harmon accepted Yale's offer of a professorship in Greek and occupied this post in 1916-23. He changed it for Hillhouse and then for Lampson. Although editing and translating Lucian excluded him from most of other scholarly research, Harmon did not finish the task and prepared only 5 volumes of the intended 8. He retired in 1945 and died in 1950.
He edited vols. 1-5 of Yale Classical Studies & with others vols. 6-8. He was the president of CANE and of APA.

Personal Life

He married Grace Newell on 19 December 1907.

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