Edward Parmelee Morris
American classical philologist
About Edward Parmelee Morris
Lived 1853 – 1938 (aged 85). Edward Parmelee Morris was an American classical philologist, university teacher and philologist.
Edward Parmelee Morris (September 17, 1853 – November 16, 1938) was an American classicist and academic.
Early life He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York. He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.
Career From 1876 to 1877, he taught Latin and history at Purdue College. From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.
Honors Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,
The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes (1880) The Study of Latin in the Preparatory Course (1886) On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence (1890) The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus (1898) On principles and methods in Latin syntax (1901)
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American classical philologist (1853–1938)
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Edward Parmelee Morris was born on 17 September 1853 in Auburn.
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Edward Parmelee Morris died on 16 November 1938 in New York City.
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