Grant Showerman


Grant Showerman Ph.D. was an American classical scholar.

Career overview

Grant Showerman was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1870. He was educated at Carroll College and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked as instructor in Latin, and from 1909 until his death as professor of classics. Showerman House in Kronshage Hall is named after him.

Works

  • With the Professor, Henry Holt and Company, 1910.
  • Horace and His Influence, The Plimpton Press, 1922.
  • Eternal Rome, 2 Vol., Yale University Press, 1924.
  • Rome and the Romans; A Survey and Interpretation, The Macmillan Company, 1931.
  • Monuments and Men of Ancient Rome, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935.

    Translation

  • OVID: Heroides and Amores, William Heinemann, The Macmillan Company, 1914.

    Selected articles

  • Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXXI, 1900.
  • Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXXIV, 1903.
  • "The American College Course," Educational Review, September 1903.
  • Educational Review, Vol. XXX, December 1905.
  • Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XL, July/December 1906.
  • Educational Review, Vol. XXXV, May 1908.
  • Educational Review, Vol. XXXVI, June/December 1908.
  • American Journal of Philology, Vol. XXIX, No. 114, 1908.
  • Educational Review, Vol. XXXVIII, June 1909.
  • Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CIV, November 1909.
  • The Dial, Vol. XLVII, July/December 1909.
  • Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CV, 1910.
  • , The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, Vol. XXIII, September 1910/June 1911.
  • In The World's Progress, Part II, The Delphian Society, 1911.
  • Educational Review, Vol. XLI, January 1911.
  • The Dial, Vol. L, January/June 1911.
  • The Dial, Vol. L, January/June 1911.
  • The Dial, Vol. LI, July/December 1911.
  • The Yale Review, Vol. I, 1911/1912.
  • The Dial, Vol. LII, January/June 1912.
  • The Dial, Vol. LII, January/June 1912.
  • Educational Review, Vol. XLV, February 1913.
  • The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIII, 1914.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. I, January/June 1914.
  • The Dial, Vol. LVII, July/December 1914.
  • The Dial, Vol. LVII, July/December 1914.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. II, No. 4, October/December 1914.
  • The Methodist Review, Vol. XXXI, January/February 1915.
  • The Popular Science Monthly, June 1915.
  • The Catholic World, Vol. CI, April/September 1915.
  • The Dial, Vol. LVIII, January/June 1915.
  • The Dial, Vol. LIX, June/December 1915.
  • The Dial, Vol. LIX, June/December 1915.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. V, No. 9, January/March 1916.
  • The Dial, Vol. LX, January/June 1916.
  • The Dial, Vol. LX, January/June 1916.
  • The Dial, Vol. LXI, June/December 1916.
  • , The Unpopular Review, Vol. VII, January/June 1917.
  • "Smith, Smoke and the War," The New Republic, February 1918.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. IX, No. 18, April/June 1918.
  • The Bookman, Vol. XLVII, March/August 1918.
  • In Classical Studies in Honor of Charles Foster Smith, Madison, 1919.
  • The Nation, No. 109, July 1919.
  • The Unpopular Review, Vol. XI, No. 22, April/June 1919.
  • University of California Chronicle, Vol. XXIV, 1922.
  • The Independent, Vol. CVIII, January/June 1922.
  • The Independent, Vol. CIX, July/December 1922.
  • "The Struggle for Liberty," University of California Chronicle, 1926.
  • "Heckling the College," School and Society, Vol. XXIV, July/December 1926.
  • "The Liberal College," School and Society, Vol. XXV, January/June 1927.
  • The Yale Review, Vol. XI, 1922.
  • "A Most Lamentable Comedy," School and Society, Vol. XXXIII, April 1931.

    Other publications

  • In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. II, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
  • In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
  • In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 19089.
  • In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, Charles Scribner's Sons, 19098.
  • Franz Cumont, with an introductory essay by Grant Showerman, Open Court Pub. Co., 1911.
  • In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VII, 1914.
  • In: Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. XVIII, 1919.
  • In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. XII, 1921.
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