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Austin Morris Harmon Ph.D., LL.D. (28 September 1878, Brockport, New York — 29 June 1950, Chebeague Island, Maine) was an American classical scholar, mostly notable for his bilingual editions of Lucian's works in the Loeb Classical Library (5 volumes, 1913-36).
Biography
His parents were George B. and Catharine Crowe Harmon. His teachers were B.A. Williams (1903) and M.A. Yale (1904). 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 (1923-34) and then for Lampson (1934-45). 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 (the 6th was edited by K. Kilburn, the 7th and 8th by Matthew Donald Macleod). He retired in 1945 and died in 1950.
He edited vols. 1-5 of Yale Classical Studies (1928-35) & with others vols. 6-8 (1939-42). He was the president of CANE (1937-38) and of APA (1938-39).
Personal Life
He married Grace Newell on 19 December 1907.
Publications
- The Clausula in Ammianus Marcellinus. Yale, 1908 (dissertation). Printed: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Transactions 16 (1911), pp. 118-245
- Consucidus (Miles Gloriosus 787). Hermes 45 (1910), pp. 461-3
- Protesilaudamia Laevi. AJP 33 (1912), pp. 186-94
- Lucian with an English translation (LCL): vol. 1 (1913), vol. 2 (1915), vol. 3 (1921), vol. 4 (1925), vol. 5 (1936)
- The Poet κατ' ἐξοχήν. CP 18 (1923), pp. 35-47
- An Emendation in Lucian's Syrian Goddess. CP 19 (1924), pp. 72-74
- Greek Vases in the Museum of the American Academy in Rome. AAR, Memoirs 10 (1932), pp. 103-27
- The Scene of the Persians of Aeschylus. TAPA 63 (1932), pp. 7-19
- Egyptian Property Returns. YCS 4 (1934), pp. 135-230
