FACULTY
Zeph StewartThe Andrew W. MellonProfessor of the Humanities, Emeritus zstewart(at)fas.harvard.edu |
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Zeph Stewart has written on subjects ranging from Latin
palaeography and Latin poetry and drama to Greek philosophy and early
Christian martyrs, but he has dealt most often with ancient religion.
He taught several courses which traced the influence of Greek on Latin
thought and literature. His publications as editor include Selections from Horace: Readings of an Unpublished Tenth-Century Manuscript (1962), The Ancient World: Justice, Heroism, and Responsibility (1966), and Essays on Religion and the Ancient World of Arthur Darby Nock (1972). His survey of Hellenistic religion, "La religione ellenistica," appeared in Bianchi Bandinelli's Storia e civiltà dei Greci (1977), and a brief characterization of Greek religion in the Grand Atlas des religions (1988). His current research concentrates mainly on Hellenistic religion and on the history of scholarship, especially in relation to James Loeb and the Loeb Classical Library. He has been a Trustee of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation since 1973. He was President of the American Philological Association in 1983 and Financial Trustee 1994-2000. He was Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington 1985-1992, having been chairman of the Harvard Classics Department 1977-1982. He has also held other administrative positions at Harvard. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Vice President 1979-1982) and a trustee of several academic institutions. He was the Winslow Lecturer at Hamilton College in 1979 and a visiting professor there as well as at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Yale with highest honors in Classics, he
subsequently served in the Army for several years, working at first on
the decoding of Japanese messages and later in military intelligence
and diplomatic liaison. Early in his career at Harvard he was a Junior
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